" D. Michael Quinn says that Smith's account is a conflation of events over several years, a typical biographical device for streamlining the narrative.

Geoffrey's legendary Keredic may have been a conflation of Cerdic, the traditional founder of Wessex, who, despite his political affiliation with the Saxons, was likely to be half-British himself, and another Cerdic, who reigned over the Celtic kingdom of Elmet around present-day Leeds until his defeat at the hands of Edwin of Northumbria.

This rationalist conflation was open to political abuses, which encroached on negative liberty, when such interpretations of positive liberty were, in the nineteenth century, used to defend nationalism, paternalism, social engineering, historicism, and collective rational control over human destiny.

The situation these account envisages appears to be the reign of two simultaneous lines of kings within Hördaland, perhaps historically true or perhaps arising from artificial conflation of different traditions — traditions perhaps of rulers who reigned over Hördaland at different times, if they ever reigned at all.

It was also around this time that the legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus developed as a conflation of the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek Hermes ; this figure was associated with both writing and magic, and therefore of books on magic.

Ninus (), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was accepted as the eponymous founder of Nineveh ( also called Νίνου πόλις " city of Ninus " in Greek ), Ancient capital of Assyria, although he does not seem to represent any one personage known to modern history, and is more likely a conflation of several real and / or fictional figures of antiquity, as seen to the Greeks through the mists of time.

As Gil describes it, tropicália ( or Tropicalismo ) was a conflation of musical and cultural developments that had occurred in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s — primarily bossa nova and the Jovem Guarda ( Young Wave ) collective — with rock and roll music from the United States and Europe, a movement deemed threatening by the Brazilian government of the time.

The conflation expresses both of these ideas at the same time without making the speaker's intention entirely clear.

According to Jonathan Gray in his 2006 book Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality, the episode makes fun of the " conflation of real time and occasional predilection for time jumps " often seen in sitcoms.

It was a conflation of several true incidents of attempted sabotage by the Nazi regime-incidents which the FBI was able to thwart during World War II-and many scenes were filmed on location in New York City, an unusual occurrence at the time.

In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII ( 161 – 215 ).

Clausewitz's Christian names are sometimes given in non-German sources as " Carl Philipp Gottlieb " or " Carl Maria ", because of reliance on mistaken source material, conflation with his wife's name, Marie, or mistaken assumptions about German orthography.

This is essentially a reworking of Further Adventures of Doctor Syn with a different conclusion and some conflation and renaming of the supporting characters.

As it arises from a conflation with a Greek word, there is no corresponding verb.

Sumeria had a base-60 system with a decimal subbase ( perhaps a conflation of the decimal and a duodecimal systems of its constituent peoples ), which was the origin of the numbering of modern degrees, minutes, and seconds.

This tradition comes from her conflation with the very old chthonic divinity Despoina ( the mistress ), whose real name could not be revealed to anyone except those initiated to her mysteries.

Satyrs acquired their goat-like aspect through later Roman conflation with Faunus, a carefree Italic nature spirit of similar characteristics and identified with the Greek god Pan.

However, changing social customs and standards also create new taboos, such as bans on slavery ; conflation of ephebophilia with pedophilia ; prohibitions on alcohol, tobacco, or psychopharmaceutical consumption ( particularly among pregnant women ); and the employment of politically correct euphemismsat times quite unsuccessfullyto mitigate various forms of discrimination.

In 1997 John T. Koch suggested the conflation of a probable primary form * Bernech with the native form * Brïγent for the old civitas Brigantum as a result of Anglian expansion in that territory during the 7th century.

Lydus understands Consivius as βουλαιον ( consiliarius ) owing to a conflation with Consus through Ops Consiva or Consivia.

Many critics of contemporary anti-prostitution activism argue that much of the current concern about human trafficking and its more general conflation with prostitution and other forms of sex work have all the hallmarks of a moral panic.

An apocryphal story holds that aquavit actually means " water from the vine ," a picturesque folk etymology derived through conflation of Latin vītae ( genitive of vita ) with the Italian vite ( vine ).

The conflation of Mary Magdalene with the adulteress saved from stoning by Jesus has some precedent in tradition but according to the director was done for dramatic reasons.

There was widespread conflation of the two in mediaeval tradition, but scholars have contested the traditional identification with the Welsh Saint Garmon, commemorated in the North Welsh placename Llanarmon.

It is sometimes misleadingly called the " Chinese unicorn " due to conflation with the unicorn by Westerners.

Hungarian nationalist composers, like Bartók, rejected the conflation of Hungarian and Roma music, studying the rural peasant songs of Hungary which, according to music historian Bruno Nettl, " has little in common with " Roma music, a position that is held to by some modern writers, such as the Hungarian author Bálint Sárosi.

This event also marked the beginning of the conflation of ACT UP with the Silence = Death Project, which created the famous poster consisting of a right side up pink triangle ( an upside-down pink triangle was used to mark gays in Nazi concentration camps ) on a black background with the text " SILENCE = DEATH.

How, when or why this occurred is uncertain, but is commonly attributed to a conflation with Babylonian Shamash, who – in addition to being a Sun god – was a judicial figure like Mithra.

Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, it has suffered in more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder.

A smear campaign, smear tactic or simply smear is a metaphor for activity that can harm an individual or group's reputation by conflation with a stigmatized group.

Fair value, also called fair price ( in a commonplace conflation of the two distinct concepts ), is a concept used in accounting and economics, defined as a rational and unbiased estimate of the potential market price of a good, service, or asset, taking into account such objective factors as:

This has resulted in a conflation of terms, particularly in Israel, and in religious usage, where " Sephardi " is used in a broad sense to include Mizrahi Jews as well as Sephardim proper.

Either way, this assimilation, combined with the use of the Sephardic rite, led to the popular designation and conflation of most non-Ashkenazic Jewish communities from the Middle East and North Africa as " Sephardic ", whether or not they were descended from Spanish Jews, which is what the terms " Sephardic Jews " and " Sepharadim " properly implied when used in the ethnic as opposed to the religious sense.

Other names used to describe the same concept include: " coreference / entity / identity / name / record resolution ", " entity disambiguation / linking ", " duplicate detection ", " deduplication ", " record matching ", "( reference ) reconciliation ", " object identification ", " data / information integration ", and " conflation ".

Idiom conflation has been used as a source of humor in certain situations.

An illustrative conflation seems to merge disparate figures as in Santería.

The text seems to be a conflation of a " Gregorian " benedictional which was derived from the supplement by St Benedict of Aniane to the so-called Hadrianum, a sacramentary from Rome that had been in papal use, and an 8th century Gallican text.

Spelled Caladcholg, it is also associated with the more obscure Ulster hero Fergus mac Leda, suggesting a conflation of two legends.

Others, however, argue that, since both ( or all ) parts already exist in the English lexicon, such mixing is merely the conflation of two ( or more ) English morphemes in order to create an English neologism ( new word ), and so is appropriate.

A more critical interpretation of the epithet is that it stems from a general tabloid and folk conflation and reaction to several aspects of academic interest in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Phil Hardy, in his Encyclopedia of Western Movies ( 1985 ), wrote of El Topo: " Rather in the manner of Federico Fellini, whose self-conscious conflation of the roles of charlatan and ringmaster of the unconscious Jodorowsky apes, the film is a breathtaking concoction of often striking, but more often ludicrous, images.