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admixture|ædˈmɪkstjʊə(r)|
[f. L. admixt- (see prec.) + -ure, as if ad. L. *admixtūra; cf. mixtūra.]
1. The action or process of mingling one substance with another, or of adding as an ingredient; the fact of being so mingled.
1605Timme Quersitanus iii. 184 Out of hearbes..waters are extracted by simple distillation, without the admixture of any other liquor. 1704Ray Creation Pref. 8 By the Admixture of that which is false, [they] render that which is true suspicious. 1791Hamilton Berthollet's Art of Dyeing II. ii. §6. 306 Compound colours..are formed by the admixture of simple ones. 1861Stanley East. Ch. ii. (1869) 72 It is important to notice this admixture of secular and lay authority.
2. That which is mixed with anything; an alloy, an alien element.
1665Glanville Scepsis Sci. 71 Natural Theory hath been very much hindered and corrupted by metaphysical admixtures. 1818Accum Chem. Tests 126 Increasing the admixture of oxymuriate. 1850Merivale Hist. Rom. Emp. (1865) I. ii. 52 Its original patrician element might in time be completely absorbed in the plebeian admixture. 1878Green Coal i. 7 The shales contain a large admixture of sand. |