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:m appeal of robbery be brought, and the plaintiff leaves 
out Jonie-of his goods, he fliall not be received to enlarge 
his appeal ; and forafmuch as there is none to have the 
goods to left out, the kihg (hall baye them as confifcate, 
according to the rule, quod non capit Cbriflus , capit fifcus. 
Staunfl. P. C. c. 24.. Goods confifcated ar'e generally (uch 
as are arretted and fei'zed for the king’s life : but confifcare 
■and forisfacere are faid to be fynonima ; and bona conjifcata 
are bona fori si a cl a. 3 Inf. 227. See the article F.o r.feit ur e. 
CONFIS'CATE, adj. Transferred to the public as for¬ 
feit. The accent i n Shakefpeare is on the fir It lyllabie : 
Thy lands and goods 
A re, by thS laws of Venice, confifcate 
Unto the itate of Venice. , Shakefpeare. 
CONFISCA'TlON,/ The aft of transferring the for" 
felted goods of criminals to public ufe.—Jt was in every 
man’s eye, what great forfeitures and confifcations he had 
at that prefent to help himlelf. Bacon. 
CON'FITENT,/. [ confitens , Lat.] One confeffing ; one 
who confeffes his fault?.—A wide difference there is be¬ 
tween a meer confitent and a true penitent. Decay of Piety. 
CGN'FITURE, f. [French; from confeflura, Lat.] A 
fweetmeat; a confection; a comfit.—It is certain, that 
there be fome lioufes wherein confitures and pies will ga¬ 
ther mould more than in others. Bacon. 
'To COINFIX', oj. a. [ conf.go , confixum, Lat.] To fix 
down ; to fatten : 
As this is true, 
Let me in fafety raife me from my knees; 
Or elfe for ever be confixed here, 
A marble monumeht! Shakefpeare. 
CONFLA'GRANT, adj. \_ronJlagrans, Lat.] Burning 
together ; involved in a general fire : 
Then raife 
From the co/flagrant mafs, purg’d and refin’d, 
New heav’ns, new earth. Milton. 
CONFLAGRA'TION, f. [conflagratio, Lat.] A gene¬ 
ral fire fpreading over a large fpace : • 
Next o’er the plains,.where ripened harvefts grow, • 
The running conflagration fpreads below. Addifon. 
It is generally taken for the fire which (hall confume this 
world^at the confummation of all things. 
The ancient Pythagoreans, Platonifts, Epicureans, and 
Stoics, appear to have had a notion of this expefted con¬ 
flagration: though whence they (hould derive it, unlefs 
from the facred books, is difficult to conceive; except, 
perhaps, from the Phoenicians, who had it from the Jews. 
Seneca fays exprefsly, Tempus adnjenerit quo fidera fuleribus 
incurrent , & omni flagrante materia uno igne, quicquid nunc 
ex depofito lucet', ardebit. This general diflolution the 
Stoics call EKOTfwcnp ecpyrofis. Mention of the conflagra¬ 
tion is alfo made in the books of the Sybils, Sophocles, 
Hyftaipes, Ovid, Lucian, See. Dr. Burnet, after F. Ta- 
chard and others, relates that the Siamefe believe that 
the earth will at laffc be parched up with heat; the 
mountains melted down; the earth’s whole furface re¬ 
duced to a level, and then confumed with fire. And 
the Bramins of Siam do not only hold that the world 
fliall be deftroyed by fire; but alfo that a new earth 
fhall be made out of the chaos of the old. Various are 
the lentinients of authors on the fubjeft of the conflagra¬ 
tion ; the caufe whence it is to arife, and the effefts it is 
to produce. Divines ordinarily account for it metaphy- 
flcally. Philofophers contend for its being produced 
from natural caufes. Some think an eruption of the 
central fire fufficient for the purpofe; and add, that it 
may be occafioncd feveral ways, viz. either by having its 
intention increafed, which may be effected either by 
being driven into lefs fpace by the encroachments of 
the fuperficial cold, or by an increafe of the inflamma¬ 
bility of the fuel whereon it is fed ; or by having the 
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refinance of the imptifoning earth weakened ; which 
may happen, either from the 'diminution of its nr.-.ttrr, 
by the confumption of its central parts, or by weakening 
the cohefion of the conftituent parts of the inafs bj' the 
excels of the defeft of moilture. Others look for the 
caufe of the Conflagration in the atmofphere; and fuo- 
pofe, that fome of the meteors there engendered in un* 
ufual quantities, and exploded with unufual vehemence, 
from the concurrence of various circurnftances, may ef 
fed it, without lecking any further. The aftrologers 
prediflit from a conjunction of all the planets in the fign 
cancer; as the deluge, fay they, was occafioned by their 
conjunction in capricorn. Others have recoin fe to a more 
efficient caufe, and conclude the world is to underg-o its 
conflagration from the near approach of a comet, on its 
return from the fun. 
CON'FLANS, a town of Savoy, near the conflux of the 
Ifere and the Doron ; eighteen miles eaft of Chambery. 
CON'FLANS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Saone, and chief place of a canton, in the dis¬ 
trict of Luxeuil : four leagues north of Vefoul, and two 
and a half weft of Luxeuil. 
CON'FLANS, or Conflant, before the revolution, a 
valley of France, in Rouflilon, furrounded by the Py 
renees, and watered by the river Tet. Villefranche fur 
le Tet was the capital. 
CON'FLANS St. KONORINE, a town of France, in 
the department of the Seine and Oife : five leagues fouth- 
welt of Paris. 
CONFLA'TION,/ \_conflatuin, Lat.] The aft of blow 
ing many inftruments together.—The fweetefl harmony 
is, when every part or intlrument is not heard by itfelf, 
but a conflation of them all. Bacon. —A calling or melting 
of metal. i 
CONFLEX'URE,/. [conflexura, Lat.] A bending oc 
turning. 
To CONFLI'CT, as. n. \_confligo, Lat.] To drive; to 
conteft ; to fight; to llruggle; to contend; to encounter; 
to engage: properly by ftriking againft one another.— 
You (hall hear under the earth a horrible thundering of 
file and water confiding together. Bacon. 
Lafli’d into foam, the fierce confiding brine 
Seems o’er a thoufand raging waves to burn. Tkomfon. 
CON'FLICT, / flonjlidus, Lat.] A violent collifion, 
or oppofition, of two fubftances.—Pou r dephlegmed fpirit 
of vinegar upon fait of tartar, and there will be lucli a 
conflict or.ebuilition, as if there were fcarce two more con¬ 
trary bodies in nature. Boyle. —A combat; a fight be¬ 
tween two. It is feldoin ufed of a general battle; 
The lucklefs cotflld with the giant flout, 
Wherein captiv’d, of life or death he flood in doubt. Spenf. 
Conteft; ftrife; contention.—There is a kind of merry 
war betwixt fignior Benedick and her : they never meet 
but there’s a Ikirmifli of wit between them. In our laft 
conflid, four of his five wits went halting off. Shakefpeare. 
—Struggle; agony; pang.—No affurance touching vic¬ 
tories can make preient coiflids fo fweet and caiy, but 
nature will Ihrink from them. Hooker. 
He perceiv’d 
Th’ unequal conflid then, as angels look 
On dying faints. Thomjon . 
CON'FLUENCE,/. \_confiuo, Lat.] Thejunftion or 
union of Jeveral dreams.—Nimrod, who ufurped domi¬ 
nion over the reft, fat down in the very confluence of all 
thofe rivers which watered Paradife. Raleigh.~~In the 
veins, innumerable little rivulets have their confluence in¬ 
to the great vein, the common channel of the blood. 
Bentley. —The aft of crowding to a place.—You fee this 
confluence , this great flood of vifltors .' Shakefpeare A con- 
courle; a multitude crowded into one place.—This will 
draw a confluence of people from all parts of the country. 
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