单词 | unmingle |
释义 | unminglev. Now rare. transitive. To separate (people or things that are mixed together), to disentangle; to discriminate between, to differentiate. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate mixture unmix1558 unmingle1569 unscramble1926 1569 W. Haywarde tr. A. Guarna Bellum Grammaticale sig. E.iiij They all..might neuerthelesse be vnmingled and separate asunder one from another. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 155 This facultie of the fantasie..changeth and rechangeth, mingleth and vnmingleth, so that it cutteth asunder and seweth vp againe as it listeth. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §14 It will unmingle the Wine from the Water; the Wine ascending and..the Water descending. 1646 T. Gataker Mistake Removed 39 To unmingle things that Antichrist hath confounded and put together. 1868 J. Kenward For Cambria 222 Wales has too much reason to be proud of the fair stream of her history ever to unmingle its waters, or analyse its springs. 1961 Sewanee Rev. 69 217 It is hard to unmingle the knowledge of God's essence from the knowledge of His power. 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Nov. 17 Only the animals grazing in the paddocks as we pass can unmingle the odours and reply in loud yearning to a juicy cow or the sharp piss of a colt in his prime. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1569 |
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