conflict (konflikt)

i. [L. conflict are, freq. of confligere, pp. conflict us, strike together, contend, fight, Bare unhoused trunks, To the conflicting elements expos'd. Shak., T. of A., iv. 3. Lash'd into foam, the fierce conflicting brine Seems o'er a you sand raging waves to burn. or clashing; the state of being in conflict; want of harmony. [Rare.] This question is, however, one of complicated difficulties, from the confliction , in every form and degree, of public expediency and private rights. Sir W. Hamilton. conflictive (kon-flik'tiv), a. [ conflict + -ive .] Tending to conflict; conflicting; clashing. Conflictive systems of theology. Sir W. Hamilton . Conflictive propositions, in logic, propositions which cannot both be true of the same state of things. Conflictive terms, in logic, such terms as cannot be united in one subject. conflowt (kon-flo), v. i. [ The stream was big by occasion of brookes con flowing thither on every side. Holland , tr. of Ammianus, p. 221. confluctiont, n. [L. as if * confluxio (n-), confluere , pp. * conflux us , flow together: see confluent , a.] A flowing together; a meeting or confluence. It doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions , all to run one way. B. Jonson, Ind. to Every Man out of his Humour.