1898 C. F. Adams Imperialism 10 It has saved the Anglo-Saxon stock from being a nation of half-breeds—miscegenates.

1931 T. Dreiser Dawn viii. 44 The other [house was] that of ‘the Thompsons’, an ubiquitous and energetic band of half-breeds—miscegenates of mingled Indian, Negro or gypsy blood.

1975 Man 10 482/1 Racial discriminations..between those of wholly Iberian descent and the miscegenates and within the miscegenates themselves.

1983 Word Ways Aug. 154 Dmitri notes several terms in which the components of the mix are not clearly specified: half-blood, half-caste,..miscegenate.

1992 Sunday Times 8 Mar. (Television & Radio) 17/1 She takes it quite calmly, really, the woman whose second-hand car the policeman concludes to be an illicit miscegenate. ‘The front's a Fiesta, but the back's an Orion,’ he ruefully informs her.

1864 D. G. Croly et al. Miscegenation 7 To miscegenate; i.e. to mingle persons of different races.

1864 N.Y. Weekly Day-bk. 16 Apr. 2/4 Among the animal tribes, unless coerced by man, the different species never miscegenate.

1866 Old Guard Mar. 169/2 In some genera of the animal world there are two species, closely resembling each other, the individuals of either of which may miscegenate with those of the other.

1874 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 5 270 Among the Mandan Indians..there were distinct traces of the mound-builders, with whom, it has been conjectured, they had long before been associated and miscegenated.

1931 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 36 1071 The original and urforms miscegenate, so to speak, and produce mixed types of economic theory.

1948 Man 48 7/2 The features of..the five full-blood Yámana women were mostly pronouncedly Mongoloid, as were those of the nine persons of Yámana extraction supposedly miscegenated with the Alakalufs.

1956 J. Barth Floating Opera x. 111 The fart..hung, it lolled, it wisped; it miscegenated with the smoke of my cigar.

1965 Amer. Q. 17 187 All this smoke must surely betray a fire lit by no mere country boy with an innocent hobby of miscegenating corn plants.

1994 Harper's July 49/1 Clogging, Scotch-Irish in origin and the dance of choice in Appalachia,..has now miscegenated with square dancing and honky-tonk boogie to become..country tap dance.