Definition of Conflate

1. Verb. Mix together different elements. "The colors blend well"


Definition of Conflate

1. v. t. To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

Definition of Conflate

1. Verb. To bring things together and fuse them into a single entity. ¹

2. Verb. To mix together different elements. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conflate

1. to blend [v -FLATED, -FLATING, -FLATES] - See also: blend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conflate

confixes
confixing
conflab
conflabs
conflagrant
conflagrate
conflagrated
conflagrates
conflagrating
conflagration
conflagrations
conflagrative
conflagrator
conflagrators
conflagratory
conflate (current term)
conflated
conflates
conflating
conflation
conflations
conflict
conflict-ridden
conflict of interest
conflicted
conflictedly
conflictful
conflicting
conflictingly
confliction

Literary usage of Conflate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Theological Studies (1904)
"READINGS SEEMINGLY conflate IN THE MSS OF THE ... by conflate Readings in textual work in general, and in the textual criticism of the New Testament in ..."

2. The New Testament in the original Greek by Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896)
"... mixed texts should be mixed only where there are conflate readings. In an overwhelming proportion of cases the composition of two earlier readings would ..."

3. St. Paul and Justification: Being an Exposition of the Teaching in the by Frederick Brooke Westcott (1913)
"... Here they are worked up together into one ' conflate ' quotation. Behold ! I lay in Sum (Isaiah xxviii. ..."

4. A Synopsis of the Gospels in Greek: With Various Readings and Critical Notes by Arthur Wright (1903)
"C. "Let your Loins bo girded and your Three conflate Logia. ... Two conflate Logia. (Page 383) A. "The Kingdom of Qod is within you" . of the Son of Man" . ..."

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