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▪ I. conflux|ˈkɒnflʌks|
[f. L. type *conflux-us (u- stem), f. conflux, ppl. stem of confluĕre to flow together; prob. used in med. or mod.L.: cf. late L. influxus. (No Fr. correspondent.)]
1. Flowing together; flowing into a common body; = confluence 1.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 7 As knots by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound Pine. 1612Drayton Polyolb. xxix. (1748) 380 Thus from the full conflux of these three several springs Thy greatness is begot. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 178 There is not onely a consent between the Veins of the Womb and Breast, but a conflux also. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. 6 The river Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams.
b. quasi-concr.
1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. i. vi. 24 A conflux of ill humours comes to it. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. 56 Both being so stopt, there is a great Conflux of Water made in a certain Tract of Land.
2. Meeting-place of streams; = confluence 2.
1712W. Rogers Voy. 71 A Spanish town built at the Conflux of the Rivers. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 279 At the conflux of the Anio with the Tiber, we reach the extreme point of the Sabine territory.
fig.1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 40 Stands he not..in the centre of Immensities, in the conflux of Eternities?
b. Meeting place of lines or tracts.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxiv. 499 Others..have this diverging space above their conflux. 1847Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 640/1 The posterior conflux, is situated below and behind the cerebellum.
3. = confluence 4.
1614Selden Titles Hon. 105 Vpon the new doctrine great conflux was to the new Doctor. 1699Bentley Phal. 402 Consider the great conflux of Strangers to that City. 1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. xxiv. 361 The great conflux of sick persons to the hospitals.
4. = confluence 5.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. (1702) I. iii. 160 Attended by a marvellous conflux of Company. 1710Hearne Collect. 4 Mar. II. 351 He was convey'd..to Westminster Hall by a..prodigious Conflux of y⊇ Mob. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 280 The conflux of several populations might be more disposed to listen to new laws.
5. = confluence 6.
1654Hobbes Liberty & Necess. (1841) 230 A conflux of second causes. 1694Child Disc. Trade (ed. 4) 95 The conflux of riches to that city or Nation. 1779Johnson Let. Mrs. Thrale 16 Nov., Such a conflux of misery. 1877Mozley Univ. Serm. v. 107 In war there is just that conflux of splendid action upon the very edge of life, which rouses curiosity and emotion.
▪ II. † conˈflux, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. L. conflux-, ppl. stem of confluĕre to flow together.]
To flow or run together, combine.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 238 That Diseasie Bodies do materially conflux unto the Generation of hereditary defects. |