Conflated vs Conflagrated - What's the difference?
conflated | conflagrated |
(conflate)
To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
To mix together different elements.
To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to treat (them) as equivalent.
(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
* 1999 , Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint :
(biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
(conflagrate)
To catch fire.
To set fire to something.
As verbs the difference between conflated and conflagrated
is that conflated is (conflate) while conflagrated is (conflagrate).conflated
English
Verb
(head)conflate
English
Verb
(conflat)Synonyms
* (to bring together) fuse, meld * (mix together) mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, mergeAdjective
(-)- Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.