Confection, con fectionary

Confection occurs in AV only E.x 31)* ' a c. after the art of the apothecary ' (npi rCkah, RV ' perfume '), and Sir 38' ' Uf such doth the apothecary make a c' (ij.iy/ia, RV as A V) ; to which RV adds 1 Ch 9 ' the sons of the priests prepared the c. of the spices ' (nos^SO 'C!>\ AV 'made the ointment'). Thus 'c' is always something made vp, a compound, and always of perfume or medicine, never sweetmeats.

So con- fectionary is a perfumer ; only 188" 'he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers ' (ninji, RVm ' perfumers '). Of. Bp. Mountagu (1641), Acts and Mon. 298, 'the woman was an excellent Confectionary, very cunning in poisons.' See MEDICINE, Perfumes. J. Hastings. CONFEDERACY in the common sense of league, alliance, is found Ob ' ' All the men of thy c' (n~ij), 1 Mac 8"- ™-, ((7vn)iaxla). In Is 8" "» the meai.

ing is 'conspiracy,'* which is nearly obsol., thoagh D'Israeli (Charles I. II. ii. 39) has 'in a perpetual state of confederacy and rebellion.' Confederate is both ailj. and subst. As adj. Gn 14" ' these were c. with Abrara ' ; Ps 83° ' they are c. against thee ' (RV 'against thee do they make a covenant'); Is 7= ' Syria is c. with Ephraim ' (RVm after Heb. ' rcsteth on E.') ; 1 Mac 10". As subst. 1 Mac 8" ' Your confederates and friends.' J. HASTINGS. CONFERENCE is what we should now call con.

verse, almost the same as conversation, which in Bacon's meaning in the passage, Essays ' 01 Studies' (p. '205, Gold. "Treas. ed.), 'Reading maketh a full man ; Conference a ready man ; and Writing an exact man.' C. occurs Wis 8" (A/uXia, Vulg. Iiiquel'i) and Gal 2* ' they who seemed to be somewhat inc.

added nothing to me' (where the word has no proper equivalent in the Greek, RV ' they, I say, who were of repute imparted nothing tome'; but in 1" 'I conferreanot'isthesameGreek word as is here tr'' ' imparted ' (irpixravaTlB-qiu). In the Pref. to AV c. is used in the more prim, sense of ' comparison ' (con-fero, ' bring togetlier '), * We cannot be holpen by c. of places. J. HASTINGS.