单词 | conflux |
释义 | confluxn. 1. a. Flowing together; flowing into a common body; = confluence n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] > collision or flowing together conflux1609 corrivation1621 colluvies1666 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > together confluxion1583 conflux1609 confluvium1670 penetration1800 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 6 As knots by the conflux of meeting sap, Infects the sound Pine. View more context for this quotation 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxix. 152 Thus from the full conflux of these three severall Springs My greatnesse is begot. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 178 There is not onely a consent between the Veins of the Womb and Breast, but a conflux also. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 6 The river Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams. b. quasi-concrete. ΚΠ 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid i. vi. 24 A conflux of ill humours comes to it. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Reflect. Agric. x. 56 in Compl. Gard'ner Both being so stopt, there is a great Conflux of Water made in a certain Tract of Land. 2. a. Meeting-place of streams; = confluence n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > place where rivers meet confluencea1552 confluent1600 confluity1623 conflux1712 watersmeet1828 sangam1857 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 71 A Spanish town built at the Conflux of the Rivers. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 279 At the conflux of the Anio with the Tiber, we reach the extreme point of the Sabine territory. b. Meeting place of lines or tracts. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > state or quality of being convergent > [noun] > point of convergence confluity1623 cone1705 meeting-point1818 conflux1826 confluence1828 nodal point1862 meeting-place1897 node1902 node point1957 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiv. 499 Others..have this diverging space above their conflux. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 640/1 The posterior conflux, is situated below and behind the cerebellum. 3. = confluence n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream > to one place confluence?a1475 affluence1579 afflux1603 conflux1614 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > towards each other or convergence > of numbers of people concoursec1384 repairc1390 confluence?a1475 resort1485 recourse1516 concursion1533 affluence1579 afflux1603 conflux1614 concurrence1632 flocking1669 run1792 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 105 Vpon the new doctrine great conflux was to the new Doctor. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 402 Consider the great conflux of Strangers to that City. 1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xxiv. 361 The great conflux of sick persons to the hospitals. 4. = confluence n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous weredc725 herec855 heap971 trumec1380 multitudea1382 herda1400 swarm1423 confluence1447 puissance?a1475 army?1518 multitudine1547 bike1554 conflux1702 snarl1775 rallya1794 populace1823 hive1834 skreeda1838 skit1913 rort1941 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 160 Attended by a marvellous conflux of Company. 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 4 Mar. II. 351 He was convey'd..to Westminster Hall by a..prodigious Conflux of ye Mob. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 229 The conflux of several populations might be more disposed to listen to new laws. 5. = confluence n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > towards each other or convergence concourse1398 recountera1470 congress1578 concurrency1597 flocking1604 confluence1606 contraction1610 congression1611 closing1625 conflux1655 coition1656 concurrencea1661 convolation1676 concursion1692 convergence1713 convergency1794 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > from various quarters confluence1654 conflux1655 1655 J. Bramhall Def. True Liberty 134 A conflux of second causes. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade ii. 64 The conflux of riches to that City or Nation. 1779 S. Johnson Let. 16 Nov. (1992) III. 216 Such a conflux of misery. 1877 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (ed. 3) v. 107 In war there is just that conflux of splendid action upon the very edge of life, which rouses curiosity and emotion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † confluxv. Obsolete. rare. To flow or run together, combine. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > become mixed or blended [verb (intransitive)] mingOE meddlec1350 mella1387 blenda1400 commix?1520 admixa1522 mixa1522 mingle1530 wallc1598 co-minglea1616 comminglea1626 congregate1626 intermingle1626 intermella1641 conflux1662 intermix1722 partake1731 to work up1841 interfuse1851 interblend1854 immingle1858 inmix1892 meld1959 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 238 That Diseasie Bodies do materially conflux unto the Generation of hereditary defects. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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