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The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds. If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed. Motley.

To fix; to fasten. [Obs.] Shak.

Act of fastening. [Obs.]

Burning together in a common flame. [R.] "The conflagrant mass." Milton.

A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. [R.] Bacon.

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing.

Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton.

parate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.

ized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox. Dunglison.

A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." Shak.

The tendency of fluids to run together. [R.] Boyle.

Inclined to flow or run together. --Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n.

Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics.

Of the same form; similar in import; conformable. Bacon.

The state of being conformable.

Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; --usually followed by to.

The quality of being conformable; conformability.