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confire2 (s.xii2)
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confire2 (s.xii2)

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comfire;  cumfire,  cunfire  (confier ),
p.p. comfeth,  comfit,  confet,  confit,  cumfit,  cunfit  
  FEW:  conficere 2/ii,1031b Gdf:  confire 2 2,233c / confit 2 2,234b GdfC:  confire 9,152a TL: confire 1 2,680 / confit 2,681 DEAF:  confire 2  / confire 2 (confit)  DMF:  confire 2  / confit  TLF:  confire  / confit  OED:  comfit n.  MED:  confit n.  DMLBS:  conficere 432b

v.trans.

1to create: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  Et quant l’omme le corps Crist cunfit […]  Corset ANTS 916
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Od ewe sanz vin, verraiment Ne put em pas fere cest sacrement, Kar dunc i faudreit cele matire Dunt l'en dut le sanc Deu cunfire  Lum Lais ANTS 9484
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  en ces moz ke [le] prestre dit (=Hoc est corpus meum) Est le cors nostre seignur cunfit  Lum Lais ANTS 9386
♦to make, prepare, concoct: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  covient as sages mires […] Confire divers leitoaire Contre chasqune (=ailment) son contraire  Dial Greg SATF 7671
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  E ensi le confisez: Metez […]  A-N Med i 48
( MS: s.xiv2 )  Confisez la poudre de litarge […] en ewe rose  Rom 37 521
2to mix: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Alun, salgemme […] et la flor de la meure soient bien conficés (l. confites) de vin egre  A-N Med i 250
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Fetes tut en pudre, si commovez e conficez (l. confitez) od les autres choses  Pop Med 293.235
( MS: s.xiv1 )  Pus prendrez le jus de tutes cestes herbes […] e les confierez od bure de may  Receptaria 68.594
3culin.to preserve in syrup or sweet jelly: 
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  si vus volés le bayvre longement estuer, fetes le confire o mel nettement escumé  Med Pres1 138.15
4fig.to consign: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  qu’el consuit a cop, a mort est comfiz  Boeve 3241

p.p. as a.

1 kept, set: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xiiiex ) Une escarbuncle i luist e cler reflambeat, Confite en une estache (=column, post) del tens le rei Golias  Pel Charlemagne 424
2culin.preserved in syrup or sweet jelly: 
( 1363-64 )  in 4 lb. et di. de gynger confet et 4 lb. et di. de anys confet  Durham 566
( 1399 )  anis comfeth et gobet ryal  Durham 602

p.p. as s.

culin. comfit, confection of syrup or sweet jelly: 
( c.1259; MS: c.1259 ) D'especes e de chars vivent, e de euves zucrees e cunfites de especes  Iter paris 140
en confit
culin.preserved in syrup or sweet jelly: 
( 1427-28; MS: s.xv )  Peres en comfyt  Feast Menus 247b.iii
( 1430 )  .iij. jarres de dates en confit  Port Bk studer 113

See also:

confaire 
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