Conflate

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  • transitive verb. To bring together; meld or fuse.
  • transitive verb. To combine (two variant texts, for example) into one whole.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To blow together; bring together as if by convergent winds.
  • In diplomatics, to form by inadvertent combination of two readings of the same words. See conflation, 3.
  • Blown together; wafted together from several sources; heterogeneous.
  • In diplomatics, marked by conflation; inadvertently formed by combining two different readings into one: as, a conflate text or passage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.
  • transitive verb. to ignore distinctions between, by treating two or more distinguishable objects or ideas as one; to confuse.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To bring things together and fuse them into a single entity.
  • verb. To mix together different elements.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. mix together different elements
  • Word Usage
    "In order to present the Táin in its completest form, however, I have adopted the novel plan of incorporating in the LL. account the translations of what are known as conflate readings."