commixturen.
/kəˈmɪkstʃə/, U.S. /kəˈmɪk(st)ʃər/ 1.
a. The action or process of combining or mixing together two or more things; the mixing of one thing with another or others. Also: the fact of being so mixed or combined. Cf. commixtion n. 2.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing
mingingOE
mongling?c1225
mellinga1375
commixtiona1398
mixtiona1398
compounding1398
meddlinga1400
intermelling1413
mashing1440
medlure?a1475
commistion1495
contemperation1502
intermixtion?1520
mixing1525
mixture1530
mixting1532
minglinga1535
mingle1548
temperature1550
contemperament1565
commixture1567
intermingling1576
commixing1583
intermixture1592
mixc1595
minglement1602
interblending1605
contempering1609
intermeddling1611
contemperating1617
mistion1617
immixtion1653
immistion1658
alloy1672
intermixing1690
blendure1701
intermingledom1753
blending1795
comminglement1833
commingling1854
co-mingling1856
immixture1859
interminglement1873
interfuse1887
melding1939
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 16v Sardonix,..by commixture of the Onix which is white and Sardus which is red.
a1592 T. Watson Poems (1870) 201 But it so fast was fixed to my hart, Ioind with vnseparable sweete commixture.
1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists §56 Your odious commixture of all sorts of people in the body of your Church.
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 41 The souls union and commixture of intellectual delight.
1758 R. Dossie Handmaid to Arts II. iii. iii. 268 The commixture of the ingredients must be performed by different methods.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxvi. 93 Jarring interests and opposite views..are made to produce order by their proper commixture.
1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 354 A law enforcing the commixture of tartar emetic in every gallon of spirit.
1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iv. 168 All other tongues..have undergone perpetual commixture and change.
1909 Amer Jrnl. Clin. Med. 16 1075/1 The commixture of such an agent with the stomach-contents renders the entire mass unacceptable for assimilation.
2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Jan. 4/1 The commixture of the casual and the curial in his prose style.
b. An act of mixing or mingling together; an instance of being mixed or combined.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 3.
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1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 34 By a commixture of good and euil Actes [1612 Arts].
1671 E. Maynwaring Praxis Medicorum 81 The various results from different commixtures.
1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 408 He taught his Disciples the Harmonical Commixtures of Tones.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 196 The four elements..by their different commixtures produce other secondary elements.
1843 Primitive Methodist Mag. Feb. 59/2 Foam..of which there is little doubt they construct their nests, after it has undergone, perhaps, a preparation from a commixture with their saliva.
1881 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 15 577 There is a more direct commixture between the thalamus and the internal corpus striatum.
1910 E. S. Yonge Hay Fever & Paroxysmal Sneezing 17 Others considered that a commixture of heat and dryness was the more powerful.
2007 S. Iyengar in S. P. Cerasano Medieval & Renaissance Drama in Eng. XX. 102 Collaborations and commixtures: the joined labor of the playwrights,..the yoking of fabliau and romance.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 606 Many articles obiected to the poore Martyres, of refusing obedience to magistrates, of licencious lyfe, of vnnaturall commixtures, of murdring and eating children.
1620 A. Ross 1st Bk. Questions & Answers Genesis 110 The perfect creatures..such as are procreated by commixture of male & female.
1682 G. Vernon Life P. Heylyn 181 Monks and Friers, who fancied themselves to have had unclean commixtures with her.
1768 London Mag. Aug. 433/1 The very fashionable libidinous commixtures of the sexes.
1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular IV. 26 As soon as he [sc. the fox] had scented her [sc. the bitch] too near, the mark of desire disappeared, he mournfully returned to his hut, and no commixture took place.
1875 J. M. Arnold Genesis & Sci. (ed. 2) vii. 319 In Genesis vi. we read of an unnatural commixture of the Sons of God and the daughters of man, the offspring of whom were giants.
3. The product or result of mixing things together; a mixture, a blend; a compound.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture
mingingOE
mungc1175
meddlingc1384
mellaya1400
mixture?a1425
commixtion?a1439
medley1440
brothc1515
mingly1545
mingle1548
maslin1574
miscellane1582
commixture1590
flaumpaump1593
salad1603
miscellany1609
common1619
cento1625
misturea1626
mixtil1654
concrete1656
contemperation1664
ragout1672
crasis1677
alloy1707
mixtible1750
galimatias1762
misc.1851
syllabub1859
mixtry1862
cocktail1868
blend1883
admix1908
mix-up1918
mix1959
meld1973
katogo1994
1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 46 The intemperance of heate and moystnesse is an vnequall commixture.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. vi. 6 My loue and feare glude manie friendes to thee, And now I die, that tough commixture melts.
a1626 F. Bacon Brief Disc. Union in Resuscitatio (1657) 204 So in Liquours, those Commixtures, which are, at the first, troubled, grow after, clear, and setled, by the benefit, of Rest.
1659 J. Wilson Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads 28 Those commixtures That depaint thy Face.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Planting A Comixture of Street Filth, Sea-coal Ashes, and some Horse-Dung with it.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 222 Atmospheric air may be considered..a commixture of an acid and water, and a fixed fire.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. x. i. 578 The temple contains a strange commixture of Brahmanical and Buddhist worship.
1879 J. Hands New Views Matter 42 Compound atoms, having properties belonging to that commixture differing from the known qualities of their elemental particles.
1916 Classical Rev. 30 81/2 In British India there are localities where there is an absolute jumble of jurisdictions, and the commixture is a legacy from just such a period of commotion as was that of the Achaean settlement.
2009 Oil & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 16 Nov. 38 Changes in pressure and temperature cause the commixture to leak out.
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > [noun] > determined by humours
complexion1340
commixture1598
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 297 Faire Ladies maskt, are Roses in their bud: Dismaskt, their dammaske sweete commixture showne, Are Angels varling cloudes. View more context for this quotation
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > marriage of different races, societies, or castes
commixtiona1387
intermarriage1602
commixture1652
internuptials1655
1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 13 If the Iewes had gone over into America, by themselves, or with the Tartarians, then the commixture of Nations would have produced a diffusion of promiscuous and medly manners and customes.
1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 38 The red people..draw their origin from a different source than Europeans, Chinese,..or any other different species of the human genus,..and..they are not a variety occasioned by a commixture of any of the above species.
1831 P. Matthew On Naval Timber & Arboriculture App. 384 It is improbable that much of this diversification is owing to commixture of species nearly allied.
1837 M. Ryan Philos. Marriage i. vii. 95 The best mode of effacing hereditary diseases, gout, scrofula, phthisis, mania, epilepsy, &c., is by the commixture of the species in intermarriages.
1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses i. 101 There had been such a commixture, and..adultery of various vegetable species that the production was no longer of God's making.
1883 P. Robinson Sinners & Saints xxiv. 304 Mexicans and mulattoes, graduated commixtures of Red Indian, Spaniard, and Negro.
1903 H. Schurtz in H. F. Helmolt World's Hist. III. iii. 400 All those districts in which individual tribes could escape the levelling influences of migration and commixture are very scattered.
1921 G. Banerjee India as known to Anc. World 48 These indications alike point to early racial commixture and fusion.
6. Law. In civil law:† a. = hotchpot n. 3. Cf. commixtion n. 6a. Obsolete.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > equal division of inherited property
hotchpot1528
gavelkind?1530
hotchpotch1602
commixtion1607
commixture1706
hodgepot1721
gavel1827
collation1828
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hodge-podge, Hotch-potch, or hotch-pot,..In a Law-sense Hotch-pot is a Commixture [1658 Commixtion], or putting together of Lands of several Tenures, for the more equal Division of them.
1727 tr. E. Coke Reports 5 f. 26v It would be against the Words and Intent of both the Indentures, to make a Hotchpot and Commixture of both.
b. = commixtion n. 6b.
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1791 C. Hamilton tr. Hedàya III. xxvii. i. 220 The case is the same with respect to partnership and commixture of the stock with the manager's own property.
1845 P. I. Kaufmann in tr. F. Mackeldey Compend. Mod. Civil Law 285 (note) Commixture produces a whole which is not fluid, and whose particles are not united.
1892 J. H. Merrill Amer. & Eng. Encycl. Law XIX. 1100/1 Confusion or commixture of goods in the legal sense does not, however, take place when logs plainly marked with certain initials are mingled in a boom with other logs.
1907 Codes Calif. III. 1549/1 Circumstance that property was in possession of debtor at date of seizure amounts to nothing, except upon proof of fraud or commixture.
2011 M. Kuusinen in W. Faber & B. Lurger National Rep. on Transfer of Movables in Europe: Sweden, Norway & Denmark, Finland, Spain V. 372 Commixture and confusion of objects refers to a situation where movables lose their specific nature and, in that process, also its separate legal nature.
7. Christian Church. The placing of a small piece of the consecrated bread into the chalice at the Eucharist. Cf. commixtion n. 7.The commixture is now usually performed after the Lord's Prayer and before Holy Communion (in Western rites, after the Agnus Dei). The practice is found in all ancient Eucharistic rites, Eastern and Western, apart from the East Syrian liturgy. No Protestant liturgies include the commixture, although it is sometimes practised by Anglo-Catholic priests.
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society > faith > worship > parts of service > canon > [noun] > mixing of bread and wine
commixtion1714
immission1846
commixture1850
intinction1872
society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > [noun] > mixing of bread and wine in
commixtion1714
immission1846
commixture1850
intinction1872
1846 J. Waterworth et al. Faith of Catholics (ed. 3) II. 194 May the commixture of the consecrated body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, profit us, who eat and receive, unto life, and joy everlasting.]
1850 J. M. Neale Hist. Holy Eastern Church: Pt. 1 I. i. iii. v. 520 This commixture, if not absolutely primitive, is..of very venerable antiquity.
1868 C. Walker Ritual Reason Why (ed. 2) x. 148 The separate consecration having typified the separation of our Lord's Body and Soul in the act of death, this commixture is emblematical of their re-union at the Resurrection.
1904 E. G. C. F. Atchley in V. Staley Ess. Ceremonial 27 He said Agnus Dei, and then made the commixture, dropping the smallest fragment into the chalice.
2000 D. S. Armentrout & R. B. Slocum Episcopal Dict. Church 110/2 This commixture was not retained in the Anglican Prayer Book tradition, but it is occasionally done as an act of personal piety.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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