[f. L. conflāt-, ppl. stem of conflāre to blow together, stir up, raise, accomplish; also to melt together, melt down (metals); f. con- + flā-re to blow: see FLATE.]
1. trans. To blow or fuse together; to bring together and make up from various sources or various elements; to compose, put together; produce, bring about. Now rare.
1610. Barrough, Meth. Physick, V. xxv. (1639), 346. Galen … calleth it a tumour conflated of a melancholious humour.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. Thy pestilent and stinking sins have conflated the plague wherewith I strike thee.
1654. Vilvain, Epit. Ess., I. 38. Our Mother Eve was of his Rib conflated.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XII. 16. Commentaries conflated for the benefit of mankind.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. V. i. The States-General, created and conflated by the passionate effort of the whole Nation.
† 2. To fuse, melt down (metal). Obs.
1664. Floddan F., ii. 12. The tillmen tough their Teams could take And to hard harness them conflate.
3. To combine or fuse two variant readings of a text into a composite reading; to form a composite reading or text by such fusion. (In passive.)
1885. J. R. Harris, in Amer. Jrnl. Philol., VI. 31. The two readings [ἐκεῖνος and αὐτός] are undoubtedly early, since they are conflated in Cod. D into ἐκεῖνος αὐτός.
