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confercire

confercire [CL] , to pack together. b (p. ppl. confertus) full, serried, compact. to uppehepe, †consarcire [v. l. †consertire], cumulare CathA.  b ~issimum, plenissimum GlC C 789; 9‥ ~am, getrummen WW; s1066 Angli ‥ adjuvantur superioris loci opportunitate, quem sine procursu tenent et maxime ~i W. Poit. II 17; s1141 numerus nobis in equitibus non inferior, in peditibus ~ior H. Hunt. HA VIII 17; agmine ~o G. Steph. I 15; nichil quod est †confortius [? l. confertius] puncto est divisibile Bacon VIII 150; s1340 inveniunt terram [v. l. certam] boream probitate refertam, / fidam, confertam, probitatis honore disertam (Neville’s Cross) Pol. Poems I 43; c1430 mensuram bonam, ~am et supereffluentem [cf. Luke vi 38] Reg. Whet. II 440.

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