Obs. Also 6 -our(e. [ad. med.L. confectūra a confection, L. confectūra preparation, f. ppl. stem of L. conficĕre to CONFECT: see -URE.] A preparation of drugs, of preserved fruit, sweets, etc.; = CONFECTION, COMFITURE.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Pard. T., 534. Þer nys no creature Þat eten or drunken haþ of þis confecture [v.r. confiture] … Þat he ne schal his lyf anon forlete.

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1502.  Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W., 1506), IV. xxv. 310. To ete spyces or confectures … is noo brekynge of faste.

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1581.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1597), § 114. The inordinat consumption … of Drogges, Confectoures and Spiceries, brocht from the pairtes beyond Sea.

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1693.  N. Staphorst, trans. Rauwolf, in Ray’s Trav. (1738), II. 123. A great dish fill’d up with Cibebs, and several sorts of confectures.

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