comfit Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun candy containing a fruit or nut
  2. verb make into a confection
    confection; confect.
    • This medicine is home-confected

WordNet

Com"fit noun
Etymology
F. confit, prop. a p. p., fr. confire to preserve, pickle, fr. L. conficere to prepare; con- + facere to make. See Fact, and cf. Confect.
Definitions
  1. A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
Com"fit transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To preserve dry with sugar.
    The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . . Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last. Cowley.

Webster 1913