Confingo, confingis, confinxi, confictum, confingere. To forme or make.Hirundines eadem materia nidos confingunt. Plin. Wake or fashion their nestes.Apes fauos confingunt & ceras. Plin. Wake. Confingere. Colum. To feine to be true: to inuent or imagine: to comment.Confingere & comminisci aliquid. Author ad Heren. To feine and deuise.Crimen in aliquem.Cic. Dolum inter sese. Plaut.Insidias alicui paratas confingere. Iustinus. Rumorem. Author ad Herennium. Confingere aliquid ab alio cogitatum esse.Cic.To imagin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
con-fingo, finxi, fictum, 3, v. a., to form, fashion, fabricate (class., esp. in a trop. signif.). I. Prop.: nidos, Plin. 10, 32, 47, 91: favos et ceras, id. 11, 5, 4, 11: verbum, Varr. L. L. 5, 7 Müll.; cf. Plin. 37, 12, 74, 195.—II.Trop., to invent, devise, feign, pretend: dolum inter sese, Plaut. Capt. prol. 35; cf. id. ib. 47: lacrimas dolis, Ter. And. 3, 3, 26: omnia haec, id. Phorm. 1, 2, 81: falsas causas ad discordiam, id. Hec. 4, 4, 71: aliquid criminis, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 37, 90; cf. crimen, Liv. 40, 8, 7; 40, 42, 4; Suet. Claud. 15: aliquam probabilem causam, Liv. 34, 21, 3: rationes, Col. 1, 8, 4: fronte confictā, Quint. 12, 3, 12: homicidium in se,
to declare one's self guilty of
, Dig. 48, 18, 1.—With acc. and inf.: id cogitatum esse, Cic. Deiot. 6, 16.—Absol.: confingere et comminisci, Auct. Her. 2, 8, 12.