† conflowv.
Obsolete.
To flow together.
a. of rivers.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > flow (of river) [verb (intransitive)] > flow together
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1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 221 (R.) Where the streame was big by occasion of other brookes conflowing thither.
1872 H. M. Stanley How I found Livingstone I. 79 After following a course north-easterly, it conflows with the Kingani.
b. of people, crowds.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > pass in continuous stream > to one place
settle?a1400
afflue1483
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pile1925
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards [verb (intransitive)] > towards each other, converge > of numbers of people
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afflue1483
to have concourse1555
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thwacka1652
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1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 106 (margin) Strangers that conflowed thither to see the showes.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 596 Hither, almost all the commodities of Wales, doe conflow as it were to a common Mart.
1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged Ireland ii. §11 In what Troopes and Assemblies people doe conflow thither vpon deuotion.
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