Word Meanings - CONFECTIONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A compounder. Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood. 2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.

WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
OCCUPATION
1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
COMPOUNDER
A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
CONFECTIONER
1. A compounder. Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood. 2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.
WHOSE
The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
CONFECTIONERY
1. Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies. 2. A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.
CONFECTIONERS' SUGAR
A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.
INOCCUPATION
Want of occupation.
DISOCCUPATION
The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
PREOCCUPATION
1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.