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commix, v.|kəˈmɪks|
Forms: 5–6 co(m)myx, -ix(e, 6– commix.
[The pa. pple. commixt, comyxt, is found in 15th c. (along with the n. commixtion, commixion); the present stem commix appears a good deal later. As the same relative order is found in the case of admixt, admix, mixt, mix (the last being the latest of all), the inference is that the L. pples. commixt-us, admixt-us, mixt-us were first adopted as commixt, admixt, mixt, and that the final -t was then taken to be the native ppl. ending, as in kis-t (cust), and commix, etc. thus assumed as the stem. See more fully s.v. mix.]
1. trans. To mix or mingle together; to blend. Now arch. or poet.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 567 Figges grounde Comyxt with flour. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. v. iv. in Ashm. (1652) 149 Elements comyxt and wysely coequat. 1570Dee Math. Pref. 9 The Quantities of two thinges Commixt. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 32 Cotes commixt with two of the honorable Ordinaries. 1607Topsell Serpents (1653) 615 Commixe the ashes of a Serpent with..the seeds of Fenugreek. 1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick iii. v. (1639) 106 You may commix with the said things verjuyce. 1703Art & Myst. Vintners & Wine-Coopers 12 Beat them till they be throughly commix'd. 1709Hearne Collect. 5 Dec. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 321 Tin and lead commixt. 1772Jackson Isinglass in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 6 Commixing three spoonfuls with a gallon of malt liquor. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 178 Gore with foam commixed.
b. of things immaterial.
1596Edward III, iv. iii. 54 Profit must with honour be commix'd. 1601Cornwallyes Ess. ii. xxxi. (1631) 56 This so sweetly commixeth her defects with those thoughts of liking. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 219 They commixt set Forms..in one and the same Temple. 1674Playford Skill Mus. i. 59 This Mood that is so commixt with fancy and airy reports. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) I. 134 He will confound and commix all things spiritual and temporal. 1859Fonblanque Life & Labours (1874) 537 The squeaking and grunting commixed of a herd of swine.
†c. of persons. Obs.
1621Ainsworth Annot. Pentat. Deut. xxiii. 8 They..might enter into the congregation and bee commixed with them. 1659Evelyn Misc. Writ. (1805) 117 Lest..a certain impure..rabble enter, and commix themselves with our citizens. a1688Bunyan Confess. Faith Wks. 62 The sons of God commixing themselves with the daughters of men.
2. To intermix, mix up; to intersperse.
1592No-body & Some-b. (1878) 299 We will not have a Clawbacks hand comixt With such heroick peeres. 1847H. Miller First Impr. vi. (1857) 102 With these [fields] are commixed innumerable cottages.
3. intr. (for refl.)
1519Four Elements in Hazl. Dodsley I. 11 These elements..commix together daily. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 55 The Smile, mocking the Sigh, that it would flye From so diuine a Temple, to commix With windes. 1665Manley Grotius' Low-C. Warres 960 Such as through greediness of booty, drew upon them ruine by commixing with the burning Ship. 1675Penn Eng. Pres. Interest Discov. 52 They will commix as Iron and Clay. 1776G. Campbell Philos. Rhetoric I. 252 So far is this pleasure from commixing with the pathos. 1845Clough Early Poems xiv. 9 Oh, with mine commixing I thy breath of life shall feel.
†4. intr. To copulate. Obs.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 561 The women with whome they [Devills] comixe. 1661Rowley Thrac. Wonder iv. i, Curses the man she did commix withal. |