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Webster 1913 Edition
Conflux
1.
A flowing together; a meeting of currents.
“The conflux of meeting sap.” Shak.
The general
conflux
and concourse of the whole people. Clarendon.
2.
A large assemblage; a passing multitude.
To the gates cast round thine eye, and see
What
What
conflux
issuing forth, or entering in. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Conflux
CONFLUX
,Noun.
1.
A flowing together; a meeting of two or more currents of a fluid.2.
A collection; a crowd; a multitude collected; as a general conflux of people.Definition 2024
conflux
conflux
English
Noun
conflux (plural confluxes)
- A merger of rivers, or the place where rivers merge.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, "A Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England,"
- It stands on the conflux of two rivers—the Chelmer, whence the town is called, and the Cann.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, "A Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England,"
- A convergence or moving gathering of forces, people, or things.
- 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, Book 4,
- Cast round thine eye, and see
- What conflux issuing forth, or entering in:
- Praetors, proconsuls to their provinces
- Hasting, or on return, in robes of state;
- Lictors and rods, the ensigns of their power;
- Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings.
- 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 64
- There was a conflux of emotions and thoughts in him.
- 1903, Stanley J. Weyman, The Long Night, ch. 24,
- So great was the conflux of torches, the flash and gleam of weapons, and the babel of sounds that it wrought on the mind the impression of a fire blazing up in the night.
- 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, Book 4,