confectionary

From Late Latin cōnfectiōnārius (“one who prepares things by means of ingredients”), from Latin cōnfectiō (“preparing, producing”). See confection.

confectionary (not comparable)

1. Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.

   confectionary wares

2. Prepared as a confection.
   • 1798, William Cowper, On Receipt of My Mother's Picture, line 60

     Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, / The biscuit, or confectionary plum;

confectionary (countable and uncountable, plural confectionaries)

1. A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
   • 1787, Miss Tully, “February 10, 1787”, in Letters Written During a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli‎, published 1819, page 285:

     After the dishes of meat were removed, a dessert of Arabian fruits, confectionaries and sweetmeats was served: among the latter was the date bread.

2. (obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
3. (dated) A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
   • 1986, Penny Hayes, The Long Trail‎, →ISBN, page 184:

     They stopped at a confectionary where Blanche experienced her first ice cream.

4. (obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.

   He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. -- 1 Samuel viii. 13.

5. (uncountable, rare) Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.

• confect
• confection
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• confectionary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.