confectionary noun 4adjective 2forms 1 noun4 •A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.After the dishes of meat were removed, a dessert of Arabian fruits, confectionaries and sweetmeats was served: among the latter was the date bread. — 1787 •(old-fashioned) Dated form of confectionery (“a confectioner's shop”).They stopped at a confectionary where Blanche experienced her first ice cream. — 1986 •(no longer used) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory. •(no longer used) One who makes confections; a confectioner.And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cookes, and to be bakers. — 1611 adjective2 •Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.confectionary wares •Prepared as a confection.Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, / The biscuit, or confectionary plum — 1798 formsconfectionaries
