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confection (s.xii2/4)
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confection (s.xii2/4)

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confeccion,  confeccioun,  confecion,  confeccione,  confectione,  confectioun,  confectiun,  confexcion,  confexioun;  conffectioun  (confixion,  conflecciun )  
  FEW:  confectio 2/ii,1029b Gdf:  confection 2,231a GdfC:  confection 9,149c TL: confeccïon 2,672 DEAF:  confeccion  DMF:  confection  TLF:  confection  OED:  confection n.  MED:  confeccioun n.  DMLBS:  confectio 431a

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1pharm.med.mixture, compound, concoction: 
( c.1150; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Une male confection — Mediacon l’apele hom — A fait Diane apareiller  S Nichol wace 377
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1245 )  Confectiun bon pur gute […]  Pop Med 108.4
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Confise om la poudre hermodactilorum, […] et la moille om en cele confection  A-N Med i 251
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Ceste confixion le ventre fait moiste  Waterford busby 304.S127.31
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  e ces quatre chosez face un confeccioun e la beyve od vyn  BOZ Cont 107
♦product, article: 
( MS: c.1400 )  les ditz confeccions (=sausages) vous ottroient entere completement  SAMPS2 (H2) 18r
♦preserve, sweetmeat: 
( 1384-85 )  chardeqwns, confecions, dates, maces  Durham 594
( 1403-04 )  In 3 lb. de confeccions  Durham 605
( 1428 )  .xij. pot de dates, .vij. cofyns de confections, valor .xx. s.  Port Bk studer 49
( 1429-30 )  .ij. casses de confections  Port Bk studer 108
2contamination, pollution: 
( 1376 )  (the water is polluted) qe les ditz tenant […] ne pount […] estre servis d’ycele pur la confectione suisdite  Northern Pet 108
3(of an agreement, etc.) making, drawing up: 
( 1297 )  le jour de la confection de cest escrit  Private Indentures 41
( 1313 )  aprés la confexioun de cet covenant avant dit  Build salz 422
( 1321-22 )  de laquele il ount esté tousjours pleinement paié du tens de la confeccioun la chartre  Rot Parl1 i 390
( 1333 )  du jour de la (=confection) de cest acord  Rot Scot i 254
( 1417 )  […] parties a la confection de mesme la respons  Rot Parl1 iv 110
♦arrangement, agreement: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Ce trueve hom en escriture Que Deus Nostre Sire n’a cure D’entrer en malvaise maison Se primes n’a confection. Dunc fu la virgene munde e pure, E sanz pechié e sanz ordure  Conception wace 632
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  De tut ceo par ta lettre fis tu confeccioun  LANGTOFT thiol2 463.94
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