9. Item whether she hath been present at anie time at the readings or conferrings betweene Thurstane Littlepage and other conuictes ?

Fox. Martyrs. Articies administ. to A. Wellis, an. 1521. Wake, wake thy long, thy too long sleeping Muse And thank them with a song, as is the use:

Such honour, thus conferr'd, thou mayst not well refuse. P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c.1. Onely I draw out certain diversities of readings, and many corrections by conferring the old written copies with the printed books: which have stood me in great stead of the understanding of many hard places.

North. Plutarch, Pref. p. 6. Conferre the debt and the paiment, Christ and Adam, sin and the cure of it, the disease and the medicine. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 708. Their counsels therefore and conferences about this matter, which beforetime they held dispersed here and there, and proiected oftentimes by two and three in a companie, they now complotted altogither.-Holland. Suetonius, p. 31.

You have not any where answered directly to any of this, and to the most of it, and diuer other things included betwixt the 151 page and 171. you haue not answered one woorde which the reader by conference may vnderstand. Whitgift. Defence, p. 715.

VOL. I

Thus physically quencht they thirst, and then their spirits reviv'd

With pleasant conference.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xi.
Thus when with meats and drinks they had suffic'd,
Not burthen'd nature, sudden mind arose

In Adam, not to let th' occasion pass
Given him by this great conference to know

Of things above this world.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. When we are upon the receipt of commendations from kind conferrers of them, we must be advised in taking somewhat lesse of them upon the account of our beliefe, then is offered us.-Mountague. Devout Ess. Tr. 10. § 4.

The common method of God's providence is to suffer all his creatures to act according to the powers, which he hath confered upon their natures, and accordingly having endued mankind with liberty and choice, so as that they may do well or do ill, he permits them to exercise those powers, though oftentimes they employ them to ill purposes. Sharp, vol. vi. Ser. 1.

A free conference is indeed the only fair trial of skill between reason and sophistry; it is a sort of Cornish wrestling; the competitors grapple upon even terms, and without compliment, they exchange the close hug as soon as possible, and the victory is visible to all the spectators.

Hoadly. Letters signed Britannicus, Let. 89.

I esteem the encomiums you conferred upon me in the senate, together with your congratulatory letter, as a distinction of the highest and most illustrious kind. Melmoth. Cicero, b. vi. Let. 10. But this important enterprise demands More secret conference.-Smollet. Regicide, Act ii. sc. 7.

CONFE'SS, n. CONFE'SSED, or CONFE'ST. CONFE'SSEDLY. CONFESSION. CONFESSIONAL. CONFESSIONIST. CONFE'SSOR. CONFITENT, n. To declare or reveal, to disclose or discover, to show or manifest; to acknowledge, to admit, to shrieve.

Fr. Confesser; Sp. Confessar; It. Confessare; Lat. Confitere, confessus; con, and fat-eri, from paros, i.e. fatus, from pa-cv, animi cogitata in lucem proferre, to bring into light (the thoughts of the mind,) Lennep.

They coueten confessiones to kachen some hyre.
Piers Plouhman. Crede.
Then com tht confessour. coped as a frere.-Id. p. 39.
While that I have a leiser and a space,
Min harme I wol confessen er I pace.

Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,808.
For he had power of confession
As saide himselfe more than a curat,
For of his ordre he was licenciat.
Ful swetely herde he confession

And plesant was his absolution.-Id. The Prologue, v. 218. But she hir wolde not confesse, Whan thei hir asken, what she was.-Gower. Con.A. b. ii. Our foes themselues confest they bought full deere, The hote pursute which they attempted there. Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre. Then aboute mydnight he layde hym downe to rest, and in the mornynge he rose betymes, and harde masse, and the prince his sonne with hym, and the most part of his company were confessed and houseled.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 128.

They haue fained confession for the same purpose to stablish theyr kyngdom with all. All secrets know they thereby. The bishop knoweth the confession of whom he lusteth throughout all his dioces.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 180.

It is true, quod the kynge; name them that be mete to go on that voyage. Sir, quod they, sende your confessour, frere Fernado of Farre, and the bysshoppe of Geghene, who was sometyme confessour to the kynge your father, and Peter Gardelopes, who is well languaged.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 129.

Her breath so sweetly smell'd,
The violets, as excell'd,

To looke down were compell'd:
And so confest what foile they did receaue.
Stirling. Aurora, s. 7.

Much haue we sinned, to our shame;
But spare us, who our sins confess;
And for the glory of thy name
To our sick souls afford redress.

Drummond. Upon the Sundays in Lent. Hymn. In probabilities, I prefer that which is the more reasonable, and never allowing to any one a leave of choosing that junction of circumstances and relative considerations. which is confessedly the less reasonable in the whole con

Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, Pref. And this confession flew from every voyce, Never had land more reason to rejoyce, Nor to her blisse, could ought new added bee, Save that she might the same perpetuall see.

B. Jonson. A Panegyre on King James, an. 1603.

385

And thank thee for the generous tear This glazing eye could never shed.

CONFIDE, v.
CO'NFIDENCE.
CONFIDENT, adj.
Co'NFIDENT, n.
CONFIDENTIAL.
CONFIDENTIALLY.
Co'NFIDENTLY.
CONFIDER.

Lord Byron. The Giaour. Fr. Confier; It. Confidarsi; Sp. Confiarse; Lat. Confidere, (con, and fidere, to have fay-eth or faith, to trust.)

To have or place faith or trust in; to credit or give credit; to trust or CONFIDANT, n. believe, to be secure or assured, to rely or depend upon; to be firmly, boldly

secure.

Who can haue confidens in him which putteth diffidens in all me.-Hall. Rich. III. an. 3.

The duke although, that he had small confidence, but rather great diffidence, in the othe and promise of Mōsire de Vauclere: thought it necessary to knowe, in what case Caleis stede, & what mutacions wer there.

Id. Edw. IV. an. 9.

And these last wordes he would often repeate, with demonstration of great feruencie of mind, being himself very confident, and setled in beliefe of inestimable good by this voyage.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 159.

Yet not terrible, That I should fear, not sociably mild, As Raphael, that I should much confide, But solemn, whom not to offend, With reverence I must meet, and thou retire. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi. 3 D

Yet because outward storms the strongest break,
And strength itself by confidence grows weak,
This new world may be safer, being told
The dangers and diseases of the old.

Donne. Anatomy of the World. First Anniversary.

When such an opinion makes a sect, and this sect gets firm confidents and zealous defenders, in a little time it will dwell upon the conscience as if it were a native there, whereas it is but a pitifull inmate and ought to be turned out of doors.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. ii. c. 2.

Tell me then, if whatsoever, ire

Suggests, in hurt of me, to him, thy valour will prevent?
Achilles answered; all thou knowest, speake and be con-
fident.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. i.

After hee had made choise of a companie very lightly appointed, such as for lively vigour and delivernesse of bodie surpassed all others, with them he went foorth, hoping confidently for greater matters.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 147.

We shal be the less frighted when with the apostles we are going into the cloud, remembring the reproach God maketh to tottering confiders, Am I onely a God at near hand, and not the same at distance?

Mountague. Devoule Essayes, Treat. 16. s. 5.

May she [Rome] no more confide in friends,
Who nothing farther understood,
Than only, for their private ends,

To waste her wealth, and spill her blood.
Buckinghamshire. Chorusses in Marcus Brutus, c. 1.

But surely modesty never hurt any cause, and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man, which St. James tells us, worketh not the righteousness of God; that is, it never does any good, it never serves any wise and real purpose of religion.-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 44.

I dare confidently pronounce, that you will, in one month, find more joy, more peace, more content, to arise in your spirits from the sense that you have resisted the temptations of evil, and done what was your duty to do, than in many years spent in vanity and a licentious course of living. Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 2. Hobby being a confidant of the Protector's, he may be supposed to have written as he was directed by him.

Burnet. History of Reformation, an. 1547.

Thanks to the lovely fair ones, types of heaven,
Who raise and beautify the bounty given:
But chief to him in whom distress confides
Who o'er this noble plan so graciously presides.

Secure of all thy love, and all thy prudence,
Returning confidence has arm'd my soul
For this dread meeting; resting on thy truth
I go-

Mason. Elfrida.

Nor is it unlikely but they might get further intelligence from something dropt by his confidents, the sophists, a people vain and talkative, and at no time renowned for secrecy.

Warburton. Of Julian's Attempt to rebuild the Temple.

Against all rules, after we had met nothing but rebuffs in return to all our proposals, we made two confidential communications to those in whom we had no confidence, and who reposed no confidence in us.-Burke. Reg. Peace. Let. 3.

What hath been said, I suppose, will tend to give us a different and higher notion of this extraordinary work and lessen our surprise at the author's presumption, in so confidently predicting immortality to his performance. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iii. s. 3.

In this conjuncture, the nutrix, who is not drawn, as in modern tragedy, an unmeaning confidante, the mere depositary of the poet's secrets, but has real manners assigned to her, endeavours, with the highest beauty of character, to divert these horrid intentions.-IIurd. Notes on Art of Poet.

Davies. Immortality of the Soul, s. 4.
Nonght save the soule which doth from God proceed,
Over death triumphs, and still is pleas'd, els pynes,
Death not man's essence, but his sinne did breed,
And it with it, the end of time confines.

Stirling. Doomes-day. The Third Houre. But Terme which signifieth bounds is the god of confines or borders, unto whom they do sacrifice both publickly and Smart. Epilogue to the Conscious Lovers. privately, upon the limits of inheritance, and now they sacrifice unto him live beasts.-North. Plutarch, p. 59.

CONFIGURE. Fr. Configuration; Sp. CONFIGURATE. Configuracion: Lat. Con, CONFIGURATION. and figura. Fictor ut dicit fingo, figuram imponit, (Varro, lib. v.) To put or place into form or shape.

In comely architecture it may be
Knowne by the name of uniformitie;
Where pyramids to pyramids relate,
And the whole fabrick doth configurate.

Jordan. Poems before 1650. Thus the different effects, which fire and water have on us, which we call heat and cold, result from the so differing configuration and agitation of their particles. Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, p. 88. [It was the] opinion of the great Empedocles; That mother earth first brought forth vast numbers of legs, and arms, and heads, and other members of the body, scattered and distinct, and all at their full growth; which coming together and cementing (as the pieces of snakes and lizards are said to do if one cuts them asunder) and so configuring themselves into human shape, made lusty, proper men of thirty years age in an instant.-Bentley, Ser. 4.

bodies and the configuration of parts; whereby they have the power to produce in us the ideas of their sensible qualities.-Locke. Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 21.

I shall not, contrary to the design of this essay, set myself to enquire philosophically into the peculiar constitution of

It is the variety of configurations [of the mouth] in these openings only, which gives birth and origin to the several vowels; and hence it is they derive their name by being thus eminently vocal and easy to be sounded of themselves alone. Harris. Hermes, b. iii. c. 2.

CONFINE, v. CO'NFINE, n. CONFINEDNESS. CONFINELESS. CONFINEMENT. CONFINER. CONFINABLE. To end, terminate or determine; to bound or border upon; to limit, to inclose or inscribe, to keep within certain bounds or limits, to restrain, to keep close, to shut up, to fasten in.

Fr. Confiner; It. Confinare; Sp. Confinár; Lat. Con, and finis, perhaps, as Julius Scaliger thinks, from the verb fio; Finis est cujus gratiâ aliquid fit. To confine is

Confiner, (see Wotton and Hobbs)—a borderer.

For, where 'tis of itself inclin'd, It breaks loose when it is confin'd, And like the soul, its harbourer, Debarr'd from freedom of the air, Disdains against its will to stay, But struggles out, and flies away.-Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 1. Before we take into consideration the epistle to the Romans, in particular, it may not be amiss to premise,-the miraculous birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, were all events that came to pass within the confines of Judea.-Locke. On Romans. Synopsis.

We may not affirm, that ruptures are confinable unto one side, as the peritoneum or rim of the belly may be broke, or its perforations relaxed in either.-Brown. Vulgar Errours.

That man can do wrong, arises from a weakness and not a superiour strength in him; from the imperfection of his views, and the confinedness of his powers.

Hoadly. Letters signed Britannicus, Let. 53. We find three incompliant prelates more this year under confinement in the Tower, Gardner, Bishop of Winchester, leath of Worcester, and Day of Chichester.

Strype. Memorials. Edw. VI. an. 1550.

And thanne, wan he were ichose in his chapele rigt there Homage he solde him do, ar he confermed were.

R. Gloucester, p. 473. He made ac[eke]conferment to Westmynstre of echethynge, That thoru hym hem ygyue was, other thoru eny other kynge. Id. p. 349.

The chartre of franchise conferm it gow he salle.
R. Brunne, p. 301.
Thise monkes were dismaied for Steuen of Langton
Tha pape ther of was paied, mad the confirmacion.
Id. p. 209.

For in alle thingis ghe ben maad riche in him in ech word and in each kunnyng as the witnessyng of Crist is confirmed in ghou, so that no thing fail in ghou in ony grace that abiden the schewyng of our Lord Jesus Crist.

Wiclif. 1 Corynth. c. 1. In all thynges ye are made ryche by hym, in all learnynge and in all knowledge euen as the testimonye of Jesus Christ was confirmed in you, so that ye are behynde in no gyfte, and wayte for the appearynge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Bible, 1551. Ib. And after wan ye han examined youre counseil, as I have said beforne, and knowen wel that ye moun performe your emprise, conferme it than sadly til it be at an ende. Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus. And when the lawe was confirmed In due forme, and all affermed, This innocent, which was deceiued, His papacie anon hath weiued, Renounced and resigned eke.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

And in his confirmation,
Upon the fortune of his grace

His name was cleped Boniface.-Id. Ib. b. ii.

That is to say, he [the pope] coulde not bee lord ouer the worlde, and cause emperours and kynges to fetche their confirmation of him, and to kneele downe and kisse his feete.-Barnes. Workes, p. 195.

I am confirm'd, the lady By this time proves his scorn as well as laughter. Ford. The Fancies, Act i. sc. 1. But on I must: Fate leads me; I will follow-There you read What may confirm you.

Id. The Witch of Edmonton, Act i. sc. 2. In vain I rail at opportunity,

At time, at Tarquin, and uncheerful night; In vain I cavil with mine infamy,

In vain I spurn at my confirmed dispite : This hopeless smoke of words doth me no right. Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece. For their confirmance, I will therefore now Slepe in our black barke.---Chapman. Homer. Odyss. b. iii. Whether confirmation be a sacrament or not, it is of no use to dispute; and if it be disputed, it can never be proved to be so as baptism and the Lord's supper, that is, as generally necessary to salvation: though it be no sacrament, it cannot follow that it is not of very great use and holiness. Bp. Taylor. On Confirmation, s. 1.

It is not improbable, that they [the disciples] had in their eye the confirmatory usage in the synagogues, to which none were admitted, before they were of age to undertake for themselves Bp. Compton. Episcopalia, (1686.) p. 35.

The oath of a louer is no stronger than the word of a tapster, they are both the confirmers of false reckonings. Shakespeare. As You Like it, Act iii. sc. 4. And that shee [the moone] was called Anna, Quia mensibus impleat annum, Ovid. ibid. To which, the vow that they used in her rites, somewhat confirmingly alludes. B. Jonson. Part of the King's Entertainment.

We have a religion that leaves us not uncertain guesses and conjectures about a future salvation, but has given us God's express word and promise for it, sealed by the blood of his own son, and confirmed by his resurrection from the dead, and taking possession of the kingdome of heaven in our behalf.-Sharp, vol. vi. Ser. 9.

One in his father's councils and his own

Long exercis'd, and grey in business grown ;.
Whose confirm'd judgment and sagacious wit
Knew all the sands on which rash monarchs split.
Duke. The Review.

That the practice of burning was of great antiquity is confirmabie also among the Trojans, from the funeral pyre of Hector burnt before the gates of Troy.

Brown. Urne Burial, c. 1.

Touching the confirmation of the treaty that was first made between the emperor and King Henry VIII. and not ratified by the present king, the emperor thought that he had most cause to require the same.

Strype. Memorials. Edw. VI. an. 1549. There wants herein the definitive confirmator, and test of things uncertain, that is the sense of man.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 12. To each of these reasons he subjoins ample and learned illustrations and confirmatory proofs.

Bp. Barlow. Rem. p. 453.

If the difficulty arise from the confirmedness of habit, every resistance weakens the habit, abates the difficulty.

According to the politician's creed, religion being useful to the state, and yet only a well invented fiction, all experiments, that is, all inquiries into its truth, naturally tend, not to confirm, but to unsettle, this necessary support of civil government.-Warburton. Works, vol. ix. Ser. 1.

As to mine, I told them, if my estate should be forfeited, I would give them their freedom, provided I could obtain the confirmation of that grant.-Melmoth. Cicero, b. i. Let. 6. Fr. Confisquer; Sp. Confiscar; It. Confiscare; Lat. Confiscare; Gr. (Δημοσιον ταμειον πολυχρημov, Hesychius ;) Lat. FiscCONFISCATORY. us; Fr. Fisque, a bag or purse. Confiscaria bona dicuntur, que in fiscum coguntur, (Menage.) To confiscate, (written by some old writers confisk,) is

CONFISK, v.
CONFISCATE, V.
CONFISCATE, adj.
CONFISCATION.

CONFISCATOR.

To forfeit, to seize as forfeited, unto the prince's or common treasury, (Cotgrave.)

Thy goodes are confisked, and thy children banished. Golden Boke, Let. 4.

Ye put yourselfe than in adueture that all the hole hoost shuide ryse on you and slee you, or els that the kyng shulde repute you for traytours, and strike off your heedes, and con

fyske all your landes.-Berners. Froissart. Cron. vol.ii. p.34.

And all their landes, goodes and possessions were conficate and seased to ye kynge's vse.-Hall. Rich. III. an. 3.

I knowe by thy letter, how thou art banished from Rome, and all thy goods confiscate, and that for pure heauinesse thou arte sicke in the body.-Golden Boke, Let. 3.

Where our sayd progenitour accepted the same, and then caused himselfe to be crowned kyng of Scotland, and for a tyme enterteigned it, and enioyed it, as very proprietary and owner of the realme, as on thone partie by confiscation acquired, & on the other part by free will surrendred vnto him-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 34.

and

But the king commanding him to be kept from sustenance, hunger at last enforced him to render himself to the king's mercy: all his goods which were very great, confiscate. Baker. Hen. III. an. 1235. Having espied two wealthy gentleme of Rome passing by, he commanded them to be apprehended incontinently, condemned in the confiscation of their goods. Holland. Suetonius, p. 143. The English and Dutch are never permitted, though under the greatest distress of weather, or want of provisions, to put into any of those ports; but their ships, if they come in, are constantly confiscated: and upon this very account, that, if once entrance were permitted the traffic could not but follow.--Hoadly. An Enq. into the Cond. of Gt. Britain.

But, doubtless, an innocent posterity were sometimes punished, according to the denunciation of this law, for the crimes of their wicked fathers; as is done by modern states, in attaint of blood and confiscation: and this with the highest equity in both cases.-Warburton. Div. Leg. b.v. s.5.

CONFIT, n. Fr. Confiture. See COMFITS, CO'NFITURE. and CONFECT.

The confiscators truly have made some allowance to their victims from the scraps and fragments of their own tables, from which they have been so harshly driven, and which have been so bountifully spread for a feast to the harpies of usury.-Burke. On the French Revolution.

A confecting, preserving, steeping, soaking, sawcing, seasoning; also, a confection, condiment, preserve, (Cotgrave.)

After what has passed in 1782, one would not think that decorum, to say nothing of policy, would permit them to call up. by magick charms, the grounds, reasons, and principles of those terrible, confiscatory and exterminatory periods. Id. Letter to Richard Burke, Esq.

you

Would not use me scurvily again, and give me possets with purging confits in't?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Scornful Lady, Act iv. sc. 1.

And in this house we contain also a confiture-house; where we make all sweet-meats dry and moist.

Bacon. New Alalanlis.

As this is true,

Let me in safety raise me from my knees
Or else for euer be confixed here

A marble monument.-Shakes. Meas. for Meas. Act v. sc.1.

For even with the help of all the thornes in our sides or before our eyes, to wit our own pains or the pressures of others; how subject are we to embrace this earth, ev'n while it wounds by this confixure of ourselves to it? Mountague. Devoute Essayes, Treat. 4. pt. ii. s. 1. Fr. Conflagration;

?

From the conflagrant mass, New heavens, new earth.

As for unbelievers, and wicked livers and impenitents, they are immediately, upon their death, put into a miserable condition, and so shall continue for ever; though perhaps their misery will not have its consummation and extremity till the day of judgment, and the general conflagration of the world, as neither the other had their happiness compleated till that time.-Sharp, vol. vii. Ser. 8.

For conflagrations, fierce and strong,

Are fatal still, but never long.-Blacklock. Hor. b.i. Ode 13. CONFLATE, adj. Lat. Conflare, atum; CONFLATION. Icon, and flare, to blow; which, with Gr. λav, Vossius thinks a sono fictum. Conflation is

A blowing together, or at the same time. Methought no ladie else so high renownd That might haue causde me change my conflate minde, So was I caught by snares of Cupid blind. Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 24. The sweetest and best harmony is, when every part or instrument is not heard by itself, but a conflation of them all.-Bacon. Natural History, § 225.

CONFLICT, v. Lat. Confligere, conflicCONFLICT, n. tum; con, and fligere, to CONFLICTATION. dash. See AFFLICT, and PROFLIGATE.

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To dash together, to strive or struggle against or with, to combat, to encounter; to contend or

contest.

Also where there is lack of order, nedes muste be perpe. tuall conflycte.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governorr, b. i. c. 1.

And ouer & besyde these foure pryncipall bataylles, Vortimerus had wt the Saxons dyuers other conflictis, as in Kent, at Thetfoorde in Northfolke, & in Essex, neare vnto Colchestre. Fabyan, vol. i. c. 88.

And this consideration doth so effectually support him under all the difficulties that he hath to conflict with, that he not only sits down easily and quietly, but is very well pleased with the dispensations of the Divine providence towards him, how ingrateful soever they may be to flesh and blood.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 5.

Tary (quoth he) in this place whiles I goe into my accustomed place, and praye there. For he durst not make them priuie of his conflicte, sith they were yet but weake. Udal. Math. c. 26. First when to get Marfisa he had thought, He had conflicted more then twice or thrise, And now with tother quarrelled for nought, About a bird or some such fond devise.

Harrington. Orlando, b. xxvi. s. 74. The starrie cope Of heav'n perhaps, or all the elements At least had gon to rack, disturb'd and torne With violence of this conflict.-Millon. Par. Lost, b. iv. And sturdy conflictation Of struggling winds, when they have fiercely strove, Phoebus fair golden locks would rudely move, Out of their place.-More. On the Soul, pt. ii. b. iii. c. 2.

Even when I do not suppose good men to be under a state of persecution, yet still I suppose them to live in a state of mortification and self-denial; to be under a perpetual conflict with their bodily appetites and inclinations, and struggling to get the mastery over them.

Atterbury. Sermons, vol. ii. Pref.

Then let me dare This conflict, in the dusty lists to share; And prosper thou my glowing wheels.

CONFLOW, v. CONFLUENT, adj. CO'NFLUENT, n. Co'NFLUENCE. CONFLUX, n. CONFLUXION. CONFLUXIBILITY.

Fr. Confluence; It. Confluenza; Sp. Confluencia; Lat. Confluere, confluxus, (con, and flu-ere,) which Vossius considers to be of the same origin with plu-ere, that is the Gr. BAU-ew, Tooke, the A. S. Fleuwan.

Conflux, must, however, be from the Latin past part. Holland alone has supplied examples of the verb to conflow.

Philips. Olympionique of Pindar.

To flow together, to unite or join in one stream, current, or channel; to go, move, pass along in the same stream or concourse; to flock together.

[He] was with much honour and high entertainement, in sight of a great confluence of people, lordes and ladies eftsoones remitted by water to his former lodging.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 287.

Now, beeing much delighted with the Alexandrines' praises in prict song, who newly in a second uoiage had with their fleet conflowed to Naples, he sent for more of them out of Alexandria.-Holland. Suetonius, p. 187.

After this, there offered themselves of their owne accord a mightie number of nations and kings conflowing together in troops and companies.—Id. Ammianus, p. 97.

The morrow next ensuing he departed from thence by the very edge of the river bankes, where the streame was big by occasion of other brookes conflowing thither on every side. Id. Ib. p. 221.

Where since these confluent floods, so fit for hawking, lie, And store of fowl entice skill'd falconers there to fly. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 20. When Fidene had thus openly revolted. Tullius sent for Metius and his power from Alba, and setteth forward against his enemies and passing over the river Anio, encamped neere the confluent, where both streames meet together. Holland. Livivs, p. 21. But nothing in the world gives Moreland such content As her own darling Dove his confluence to behold Of floods in sundry strains.-Id. Ib. s. 12.

In this confluence of so many prosperous successes, in the strength also of his yeares and perfect health, hee had a full purpose sodainly to retire himselfe and remoove out of the way as farre as hee could.-Holland. Suetonius, p. 92.

Thence to the gates cast round thine eye and see
What confiux issuing forth, or entring in,
Pretors, proconsuls to thir provinces
Hasting or on return.-Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv.

As when some one peculiar quality
Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw
All his affects, his spirits and his powers,
In their confluxions, all to run one way,
This may be truly said to be a humour.

B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Introd.
There appeared no conflux of men in obedience to the pro-
clamation; the arms and ammunition were not yet come
from York, and a general sadness cover'd the whole town.
Clarendon. Hist. of the Rebellion, vol. i. p. 720.
The vilest cockle, gaping on the coast
That rounds the ample seas, as well may boast,
The craggy rock projects above the sky,
That he in safety at its foot may lie;
And the whole ocean's confluent waters swell,
Only to quench his thirst, or move and blanch his shell.
Prior. Solomon. Knowledge.

I answer, the same way that the water doth which I suppose to be by its upper superficies; the water descending by pores and passages that there it finds into chinks and veins, and by a confluence of many of them by degrees swelling into a stream, the air accompanies and follows it by a constant succession.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i.

But notwithstanding all this guard a little before the Duke [of Somerset] died, there happened on a sudden a rumbling noise, as though it had been guns shooting off and

great horses coming; which produced a very great terror among the people, of whom there was a greater conflux than ever had been observed before on such an occasion, notwithstanding it was so early.-Strype. Mem. Edw. VI. an. 1551.

And even without any design of hers, not to say without her existence, a vacuity will be so much opposed as we really find it to be, by the gravity of most, if not of all bodies here below, and the confluxibility of liquors and other fluids. Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 228. Subsiding lungs their labouring vessels press, Affected mutual with severe distress, While towards the left their confluent torrents gush, And on the heart's sinister cavern rush.

Brooke. Universal Beauty, b. iv. Beyond this it was perfectly fresh, and formed of a fine running stream, along the side of which I walked till I came to the conflux of two small rivulets, that branched off to the right and left of a remarkably steep and romantick mountain. Cook. Voyage, vol. vii. b. v. c. 1.

CONFORM, v. CONFO'RM, adj. CONFORMABLE.

CONFORMABLY.

CONFORMATION,

Fr. Conformer; Sp. Conformár; It. Conformare; Lat. Conformare, (con, and formare,) q. eandem formam rei alicui imponere, to impose the same form upon any thing, (Minshew.) See FORM.

CONFORMER.

CONFORMIST. CONFORMITY. Fr. Conformer, to conform, fit with, fashion as, make apt for, like to, proportionable unto; also, (simply) to make, frame, fashion or proportion, (Cotgrave.) And the English verb

To be or cause to be of the same form as another, to be uniform; to comply with, yield, or assent to, (sc.) a set form of words or actions: generally, to comply, to consent, or assent, to yield, to agree or act agreeably to.

Sholde conformye to on kynde. on holy church to by leyve. Piers Plouhman, p. 58. And nyle ghe be confourmyd to this world, but be ghe refourmed in newnesse of ghoure will that ghe preve which is the will of God good and wel plesyng and perfit. Wiclif. Romaynes, c. 12. And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, that acceptable, and perfect will of God. Modern Version. Ib. But naihless she neither wept ne siked, Conforming hire to that the markis liked. Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8422. And whan he sigh time and space, Through the disceite of his magike, He put hym out of man's like, And of a dragon toke the forme, As he, whiche wolde hym all conforme

To that she saw in sweuen er this.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi.

I haue such confidence in your Christen brest, as in my judgment ye will conformably and gladly, both heare that may be reformed in you, and also (as it is worthy) so knowledge and confesse the same.

Fox. Martyrs. A Let. of Latimer to Sir Ed. Boynton. Wherefore the prelacy of the londe assymyled them in counceyll, and by a full & hoole auctoryte, seinge they might not enduce the kynge to noone conformytie or agremet, to resume his lawfull wyfe, and to refuse that other, they denoūsed hym and his realme accursed.-Fabyan, c. 243.

We should never therefore use, behold or look upon any one of our fellow creatures, but we should be raised by them unto God, invited to devotion, and spurred to conform our wills and affections to the pattern of that eternal will, which they any way express.-Mede. Works, b. i. Dis. 35

Our purer essence then will overcome
Their noxious vapour, or enur'd not feel,
Or chang'd at length, and to the place conform'd
In temper and in nature, will receive
Familiar the fierce heat, and void of pain.

May her gay mouth, which she no time may close,
So wide be, that the moon may turn therein :
May eyes and teeth be made conform to those;
Eyes set by chance and white, teeth black and thin.
Drummond. Thyrsis in Dispraise of Beauty.

And we find that with these circumstances, their salts are always so [figured]: and always conformable to themselves. The figures whereof are very numerous; but all agree in being rectilinear, and composed of proportional sides and angles.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 3.

Beloved, did we verily believe, that God could and would make us perfectly happy, if we serve him, though all the world conspire to make us miserable, and that he could and would make us miserable if we serve him not, though all the world should conspire to make us happy, how were it possible that to such a faith our lives should not be conformable.-Chillingworth, Ser. 1.

Frescobald, as he earnestly beheld this ragged stripling, who was not so disguised in his tattered attire, but that his countenance gaue signification of much towardnes and vertue in him, with conformity of manners agreeing to the same, being moved with pity demanded of what country he was, and where he was borne.-Hakewill. Apologie, p. 436. Because of this his ring, she could not hide,

By all her paintings any one deformitie He saw most plainly that in her did bide, Vnto her former beauties no conformity. Harrington. Orlando, b. xvii. s. 61. You, it seemeth, are none of those wee he speaketh of: for he meant it of the publick authorised doctrine of the Church of England, and of conformers unto the said doctrine of that Church.-Mountagu. An Appeale to Cæsar, c. 7.

I think those who make laws, and use force, to bring men

to church-conformity in religion, seck only the compliance, but concern themselves not for the conviction of those they punish; and so never use force to convince. For, pray tell ine, when any dissenter conforms, and enters into the Church-communion, is he ever examined to see whether he does it upon reason, and conviction, and such grounds as would become a Christian concerned for religion?

Locke. Second Letter concerning Toleration.

The sonne of al hevene Conforteth him in her continence.-Piers Plouhman, p.308. Or if he take confortatiues

to helpe hym at his neede.

Drant. Horace, b. ii. Sat. 2. For life, and limmes confortityue.-Id. Ib. Ep. to Lollius. It is evident that his full and fervant aim is, in this close of his epistle, to leave behind him a strengthening confortatory unto the whole Church of the New Testament then in the world, and in them unto the whole Catholick to succeed to the end of the world, against the fears of falling away. Goodwin. Works, vol. ii. pt. iv. p. 239.

For corroboration and comfortation [some editions, confortation,] take such bodies as are of astringent quality, without manifest cold.-Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 962.

Hateful confounders both of blood and laws,
Vile orators of shame, that plead delight;
Ungracious agents in a wicked cause,
Factors for darkness, messengers of night.

Daniel. The Complaint of Rosamond.
Nov. Jun. Tell you! why, sir, are you my confessour?
Rom. I will be your confounder if you do not.
[Draws a pocket dag.

Stir not, nor spend your voice.
Massinger. The Fatal Dowry, Act iv. sc. 1.

For the new world her silver and her gold
Came, like a tempest, to confound the old.
Waller. On a War with Spain.

It was upon this very account that Christians took the pains to translate and publish them [Scriptures] ; not to confound religion but to confirm it.-Bentley. Free-thinking.

Our critic confounds the nature and order of things to make Paganism passive and unprovoked at a principle, which subverted the whole system of their religion, namely, the unsociability of the Christian faith, and yet mortally offended with a practice the most sacred and universal in Paganism, namely, mysterious and nocturnal rites. Warburton. The Divine Legation, Preface.

With no reason on earth to go out of his way,
He [Garrick] turn'd and he varied full ten times a day.
Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick,
If they were not his own by finessing and trick.
Goldsmith. Retaliation.

CONFRACT. CO'NFRAGOSE. frangere, to break. See FRACTION. Broken, cleft, craggy.

Lat. Confractum, the past part. of Confringere, con, and

The body being into dust confract,
The spright diffus'd, spread by dispersion.
More. On the Soul, pt. iii. c. 1. s. 9.

But what was most stupendious to me was the rock of St. Vincent, a little distance from ye towne, the precipice whereoff is equal to ye most confragose cataracts of the Alpes, the river gliding betweene them at an extraordinary depth.-Evelyn. Memoirs. June 27, 1654.

CONFOUND, v. Fr. Confondre; It. CONFOUNDED, adj. Confondere; Sp. ConCONFO UNDEdly. fundir; Lat. Confundere; CONFOUNDEDNESS. con, and fundere, to pour. CONFOUNDER. Fundere est in fundum jacere. (Vossius.) But fundus is of uncertain ety-entred and professed in the orders of this confraternity, than good Epaminondas ?-Holland. Plutarch, p. 23.

And all these live in one society, & confraternity, and by the name of brethren.-Stow. Of Vniversities, c. 10. p. 971. And shall Patæcian, the notorious thiefe, be in better state after this life when he is once departed, only because he was

CONFRATERNITY. Lat. Con, and frater, a brother. (See Vossius, and Scheidius in Lennep.) Frater may have passed from the Northern word, (the Goth. Brother,) by change first of b into p, and then of p into f. Verstegan uses Confrater. See CONFRIER.

A brotherhood, a society of brethren.