conflare

conflare [CL] 1 to blow on, kindle. b to blow (bellows). c (of wind) to blow (intr.). 8‥ ~atur, is blawen ‥ 9‥ ~atum, incensum, onæled, geblawen WW.  b 1304 tribus conflatoribus suis ~antibus folles cum eodem [fornellario] ad fornell’ KR Ac 260/7 m. 1.  c talis ventus ~abit ‥ qualis nuncquam auditus est Plusc. VII 34. 2 to smelt, fuse; b (fig.). scopaturas ‥ torridis fluentis abluebant ~atamque duritiem duro lapide comminuebant; his minutiis suo igni ~atis pretiosam massam extorquebant Gosc. Mir. Aug. 16; quum castrum illud [Alcester)] ‥ ~andi ferrum locus esset aptissimus Chr. Evesham 26; 1283 inposuit eidem Judeo predictam platam [argenti] de tonsura monete fuisse ~atam SelPlJews 121; p1300 dictam mineram faciunt usque ad curiam vestram de Woky Som deportari, in cujus medio erecta fornace dicti artifices ~ant illa mineralia AncC 48/177 (cf. ib.: vidi primam peciam plumbi ~atam).  b succendendo ~astis, ~ando consolidastis animam meam cum animabus vestris Anselm (Ep. 120) III 259; c1236 spiritus noster cum spiritu vestro ~atus Gros. Ep. 31; R. Bury Phil. 1. 16 (v. coeffodere). 3 to get together, assemble (forces or sim.). b to combine, conflate (clauses). c to puff out (fig.), expand (by adding extraneous matter). convocans et ~ans tam proprias quam vicinarum gentium vires Gir. EH I 1; s1251 exercitum numerosissimum ~antes M. Par. Maj. V 248; 1282 quatuor abbates ‥ ~ati adinvicem appellarunt Peckham Ep. 223 p. 280.  b [clausulas] manus artificis ‥ ita conflat in unum Vinsauf PN 700.  c in Francorum reguo, ubi evangelia similiter et introitus, sed ante missam, multiplicare presbyteri ex cupiditate consueverant, cujusmodi missas viri authentici ~atas derisorie vocant Gir. GE I 48.