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▪ I. conflate, ppl. a.|ˈkɒnfleɪt|
[ad. L. conflāt-us, pa. pple. of conflāre: see next.]
†1. pa. pple. Blown together; brought together from various sources, composed of various elements.
1541Paynel Catiline lvii. 81 They [Catiline's army] be conflate or gathered togyther of three kyndes of men. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 10 To walk after the flesh, is an addiction to sin, conflate of many lusts. 1638T. Whitaker Blood of Grape 14 Wine hath a double heat, or one conflate or moved out of two.
2. adj.
1587Mirr. Mag. (1610) 24 Methought no ladie else so high renownd That might haue causde me change my conflate minde [ed. 1575 ever change my mind].
3. spec. Formed by combination or fusion of two readings. (See quot. 1881 and conflation 3.)
1881Westcott & Hort Grk. N.T. Introd. 49 Readings which are..mixed or, as they are sometimes called, ‘conflate’, that is, not simple substitutions of the reading of one document for that of another, but combinations of the readings of both documents into a composite whole, sometimes by mere addition with or without a conjunction, sometimes with more or less of fusion. 1883Westcott Ep. St. John Introd. 22 The variants offer good examples of conflate readings. 1885J. R. Harris in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. VI. 36 How did one element of a conflate text arise out of the other?
transf.1887Jessopp in 19th Cent. Mar. 362 He has a sort of conflate expression upon his countenance; his face is as a hybrid flower where two beauties blend.
▪ II. conflate, v.|kənˈfleɪt|
[f. L. conflāt-, ppl. stem of conflāre to blow together, stir up, raise, accomplish; also to melt together, melt down (metals); f. con- + flā-re to blow: see flate.]
1. trans. To blow or fuse together; to bring together and make up from various sources or various elements; to compose, put together; produce, bring about. Now rare.
1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick v. xxv. (1639) 346 Galen..calleth it a tumour conflated of a melancholious humour. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 1 Thy pestilent and stinking sins have conflated the plague wherewith I strike thee. 1654Vilvain Epit. Ess. i. 38 Our Mother Eve was of his Rib conflated. 1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 16 Commentaries conflated for the benefit of mankind. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. v. i, The States-General, created and conflated by the passionate effort of the whole Nation.
†2. To fuse, melt down (metal). Obs.
1664Floddan F. ii. 12 The tillmen tough their Teams could take And to hard harness them conflate.
3. To combine or fuse two variant readings of a text into a composite reading; to form a composite reading or text by such fusion.
1885J. R. Harris in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. VI. 31 The two readings [ἐκεῖνος and αὐτός] are undoubtedly early, since they are conflated in Cod. D into ἐκεῖνος αὐτός. 1927A. H. McNeile Introd. N.T. 61 The custom of the former [sc. Matthew] was to conflate the language of his sources when they overlapped. |