Word Meanings - CONFLUX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 conflux issuing forth, or entering in. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONFLUX)

• Confluence
• Conflux
• meeting
• concourse
• convergence
• concurrence

Related words: (words related to CONFLUX)

• MEETER
  One who meets.
• CONCURRENCE
  1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
• CONFLUXIBILITY
  The tendency of fluids to run together. Boyle.
• CONFLUXIBLE
  Inclined to flow or run together. --Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n.
• 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
• MEETEN
  To render fit.
• MEETH
  , Mead. See Meathe. Chaucer.
• MEETINGHOUSE
  A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
• CONCOURSE
  1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale. 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving
• MEETNESS
  Fitness; suitableness; propriety.
• CONFLUENCE
  1. The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting. New York stood at the confluence of two rivers. Bancroft. 2. Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting
• MEETLY
  Fitly; suitably; properly.
• MEET
  meten, AS. m, fr. m, gem, a meeting; akin to OS. m to meet, Icel. 1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact
• CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENCY
  The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point. The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil. Berkeley.
• MEETING
  1. A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress. 2. A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers. 3. A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting.
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• SMEETH
  To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.
• BEMEET
  To meet. Our very loving sister, well bemet. Shak.
• MERRYMEETING
  A meeting for mirth.
• NONCONCURRENCE
  Refusal to concur.
• UNMEET
  Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for. "Unmeet for a wife." Tennyson. And all unmeet our carpet floors. Emerson. -- Un*meet"ly, adv. -- Un*meet"ness, n.