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-T’empie .—Colleftion ; concurrence.—We may (here be in- 
drufted how to rate all goods by thofe that will concenter 
into the felicity we fltall pofl'els, which fhall be made up 
of the confluence, perfedlion, and perpetuity, of all true 
joys. Boyle. 
CON'FLUENT, adj. \confiuens, Lat.] Running one into 
another; meeting: 
At length, to make their various currents one, 
Tiie congregated hoods together run : 
Tliefe confluent dreams make fome great river’s head, 
By dores Hill melting and defcending fed. Blackmore. 
It is ufed to denote that fevere fpecies of the fmali-pox, 
where the puftules run into each other. 
CONFLUEM'TES, a place at the confluence of the 
Rhine and Mofeile, luppofed to be one of the fifty forts 
ereeled by Drufus on the Rhine, in Gallia Belgica : now 
Coblentz. 
CON'FLUX, /. \_confluxio, Lat.] The union of feveral 
currents; concourfe: 
Knots, by the conflux of meeting fap, 
Infeft the found pine and divert his grain. Shakefpeare. 
.Crowd; multitude collefted.—He quickly, by the gene¬ 
ral conflux and concourfe of the whole people, ltreightened 
Ills quarters. Clarendon. 
CON'FOLENT, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftrift, in the department of the Charente, on the 
Vienne : twelve leagues fouth-l’outh-wed of Poitiers, and 
ten and a half-north-eaft of-Angoulefme. Lat. 46.2, N, 
Ion. 18. 20. E. Ferro. 
CONFO'RM, adj. [conformis, Lat.] Affirming the fame 
form; wearing the fame form; refembling.—Variety of 
tunes doth dilpofe the fnirits to variety of pallions con¬ 
form unto them. Bacon . 
To CONFO'RM, <v, a. [conformo , Lat.] To reduce to 
the like appearance, lhape, or manner, with fomething 
elfe : with to. —Demand of them wherefore they conform 
not themfeives unto the order of the church? Hooker. 
To CONFQR'M, <v. n. To comply with; to yield: with to: 
Among mankind fo few there are, 
Who will conform to philofophic tare. ^ Dry den. 
CONFORM'ABLE, adj. Having the fame form ; ufing 
the fame manners; agreeing either in exterior or moral 
characters;, fimilar; refembling.—The Gentiles were not 
made conformable unto the Jews, in that which was to 
ceafe at-the coming of Clirilt. Hooker. —It has commonly 
to before .that with which there is agreement.—He gives 
a reafon cotifn—nable to the principles. Arbuthnot. —Some¬ 
times 'with .ot improperly ; but to is uled with the verb. 
—The fragments of Sappho give us a tafte of her w'ay of 
writing, perfectly conformable with that character we find 
of her. Addifon.— Agreeable; fuitable; not oppofite;.con- 
filtent.—The productions of a great genius, with many 
iapfes, are preferable to the works of an inferior author, 
fcrupuloufly exact, and conformable to all the rules of cor¬ 
rect writing. AddiJ'on, —Compliant; ready to follow di¬ 
rections ; fubmiffiye; peaceable; obfequious.—Such de- 
lufions are reformed by a conformable devotion, and the 
well-tempered zeal of the true Cliriitian fpirit. Spratt. 
CONFORMABLY, ad-v. With conformity; agreea¬ 
bly; fuitably: ir has to. —I have treated of the fex con¬ 
formably to. this definition. Addifon. 
CONFORMATION, f. [Fr. conformation Lat.]_ The. 
form of things, as relating to each other; the particular 
texture and confidence of the parts of a body, and their 
difpofition to make a whole; as, light of different colours 
is reflected from bodies, according to their different con¬ 
formation.—Varieties are found in. the different natural 
ihape.s of the mouth, and feveral conformations of the or¬ 
gans. Holder. —The aft of producing fuitablenefs, or con¬ 
formity, to any th.fhg: with 'to .—Virtue and vice, fin and 
liolinefs, and the conformation, of our hearts and lives to 
the duties of true religion, and morality, arc things of 
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more confequence than the furniture of underftandir.g. 
Watts. 
CONFORM'IST, f. One that complies with the woi- 
fhip of the church of England; not a diffenter.— They 
were not both nonconformifts, neither both conformijh.. 
Dunton. 
CONFORM'ITY, f. Similitude; refemblance; the 
date of having the fame charafter of mariners or form.— 
By the knowledge of truth, and exercife of virtue, man, 
amongd the creatures of this world, afpireth to thegreated 
conformity with God. Hooker. 
Judge not what is bed 
By pleafure, though to nature deeming meet; 
Created as thou art to nobler end, 
Holy and pure, conformity divine ! Milton.: 
It has in fome authors with before the model to which 
the conformity is made.—The end of all religion is but 
to draw us to a conformity with God. Decay of Piety. — 
In fome to. — Conformity in building to other civil nations, 
hath difpofed us to let our old wooden dark houfes fall 
to decay. Graunt. —Confillency.—Many indances prove 
the conformity of the effay with the notions of Hippocrates. 
Arbuthnot. 
CONFORTA'TION, f. [from conforto, a low Latin 
word.] Collation of ltrength; corroboration.—For cor¬ 
roboration and confortation, take fuch bodies as are of af- 
tringent quality, without manifeft cold. Bacon. 
To CONFOU'ND, v. a. \_confondre, Fr. confundo, Lat.] 
To mingle things fo that their feveral forms or natures 
cannot be difcerned.—Let us go down, and there confound 
their language, that they may not underdand one an¬ 
other's fpeech. Gen. xi. 7.—To perplex; to compare or 
mention without due didinftion.—They who drip not 
ideas from the marks men ufe for them, but confound them 
with words, mud have endlels difpute. Locke. —To dif- 
turb the apprelienfion by indillinft words or notions.—I 
am yet to think, that men find their fimple ideas agree, 
though, in difcourfe, they confound one anotherwith dif¬ 
ferent names. Locke. —To throw into condernation ; to 
perplex; to terrify ; to amaze; to adonifh ; to dupify : 
So jpake the Son of God; and Satan dood 
A while as mute, confounded what to fay. Milton. 
To dedroy ; to overthrow..—Let them be -confounded in all 
their power and might, and let their ltrength be broken. 
Daniel. 
The fvveeted honey 
Is loathfome in its own delicioufnefs, 
And in the tade confounds the appetite. Shakefpeare. 
Toconfume: 
He did confound the bed part of an hour 
In changing hardiment with great Glendovver. Shakefpeare. 
CONFOUND'ED, part. adj. Hateful ;• detellable ; enor¬ 
mous ; odious : a low cant word —A mod confounded rea¬ 
fon for his brutifh conception. Grew, 
CONFOUND'EDLY, ad<v. Hatefully ; fliamefully: a 
low or ludicrous word. —Thy fpeculations begin to finell 
confoundedly of woods and meadows. Addifon. 
CONFOUND'ER, f. He .who didurbs, perplexes, terri¬ 
fies, or dedroys. 
CONFRATER'NITY, f. [from con and fraternitas , 
Lat.] A brotherhood ; a body of men united for fame 
religious purpofe.—We find days appointed to be kept, 
and a confraternity edabliflied for that purpofe, with the 
laws of it. Stilling fleet. 
CONFRICA'TiON,/ [from con and frico, Lat.] The 
aft of rubbing againd any thing.—It hath been reported, 
that ivy hath grown out of a dag’s horn ; which they fup- 
pofed did rather come from a confrication of the horn upon 
the ivy, than from the horn itfelf. Bacon. 
CONFRICA'TRICES,/! [from con and frico, Lat.] Lad 
civious women, who gratify their luftful defires with what 
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