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conflation|kənˈfleɪʃən|
[ad. L. conflātiōn-em, n. of action from conflāre: see conflate.]
1. The action of blowing or fusing together; composition or blending of different things into a whole. Also concr., the result of such composition.
1626Bacon Sylva §225 The sweetest and best Harmony is, when every Part or Instrument, is not heard by it selfe, but a Conflation of them all. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. 1057 Codification..is resolvable into two parts: 1. a re-expression and arrangement of statute law; 2. an extraction from cases of rationes decidendi..3. A conflation of both. 1838Raine Misc. Biogr. (Surtees) p. ix, The Life of Cuthbert in Capgrave, which is a conflation from various sources.
†2. ‘A casting or melting of metal’. Obs.
1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1755in Johnson.
3. The combination or fusion of two variant readings of a text into a composite reading. Also concr., a reading which results from such mixture of variants. Cf. conflate ppl. a. 3.
1881Westcott & Hort Grk. N.T. Introd. 95 Bold conflations, of various types, are peculiarly frequent in the Ethiopic version. 1890Margoliouth Ecclesiasticus 4 note, The Latin either agrees with the Syriac against the Greek, or else exhibits a conflation of the two renderings. |