Conflicting
(Con*flict"ing), a. Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing.
Torn with sundry conflicting passions.
Bp. Hurd.
Conflictive
(Con*flict"ive) a. Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton.
Confluence
(Con"flu*ence) n. [L. confluentia.]
1. The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.
New York stood at the confluence of two rivers.
Bancroft.
2. Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence,
a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.
You see this confluence, this great flood of vistors.
Shak.
The confluence . . . of all true joys.
Boyle.
Confluent
(Con"flu*ent) a. [L. confluens, -entis, p. pr. of confluere, - fluxum; con- + fluere to flow.
See Fluent.]
1. Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.
These confluent steams make some great river's head.
Blackmore.
2. (Bot.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.
3. (Med.) (a) Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules. (b) Characterized by having the
pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox. Dunglison.
Confluent
(Con"flu*ent), n.
1. A small steam which flows into a large one.
2. The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc. [Obs.] Holland.
Conflux
(Con"flux) n. [From L. confluxus, p. p. See Confluent.]
1. A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." Shak.
The general conflux and concourse of the whole people.
Clarendon.
2. A large assemblage; a passing multitude.
To the gates cast round thine eye, and see
What conflux issuing forth, or entering in.
Milton.
Confluxibility
(Con*flux`i*bil"i*ty) n. The tendency of fluids to run together. [R.] Boyle.
Confluxible
(Con*flux"i*ble) a. Inclined to flow or run together. — Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n.
Confocal
(Con*fo"cal) a. (Math.) Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics.
Conform
(Con*form") a. [L. conformis; con- + forma form: cf. F. conforme.] Of the same form; similar
in import; conformable. Bacon.
Care must be taken that the interpretation be every way conform to the analogy of faith.
Bp.Hall.
