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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Jūn′cate, n.

noun

(jŭnk′ăt), n. [L. Lat. juncata, It. giuncata, Fr. jonchée, cream-cheese, made in a wicker basket or basket of rushes, from Lat. juncus, rush. See JUNK.]

  1. A cheese-cake; a kind of sweetmeat of curds and sugar; hence, any kind of delicate food. Milton.
  2. A furtive or private entertainment. [Now written junket, q. v.]