vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CONFECT.

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1626.  Bacon, Sylva, § 998. The Confecting of the Ointment.

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a. 1641.  Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., 233. He found out a confecting of wafers or cracknels, for Augustus.

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1863.  Sala, Capt. Dang., I. i. 21. She had an exquisitely … quick hand for … confecting of diaplasms, pomanders, and other sweet essences.

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