admixturen.
/ədˈmɪkstʃə/, /ˈadˌmɪkstʃə/, /adˈmɪkstʃə/, U.S. /ˈædˌmɪkstʃər/, /ˌædˈmɪkstʃər/ 1. The action or process of mixing one substance with another; the addition of another element; the fact or condition of being mixed with something else.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient
admixtiona1398
mixture1526
admixture1531
mixtion1557
admistion1565
infusion1626
impregnation1651
1531 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection (new ed.) III. vi. xxxv. f. ccxiiiv Theyr werkes hath no notable admixture or medlynge with ony euyll.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 124/2 The admixture of all these abbeylike additions of Moonkish myracles.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 184 Out of hearbes..waters are extracted by simple distillation, without the admixture of any other liquor.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God Pref. sig. A6v By the admixture of what is False, [they] render that which is True, Suspicious.
1757 London Chron. 10–13 Sept. 252 The apparent Difference..wholly arises from the Admixture of some other Substance with the Salts.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. §6. 306 Compound colours..are formed by the admixture of simple ones.
1834 W. Youatt Cattle vi. 203 The dairy-farmers..if they permit any admixture of short-horn blood..are anxious that that of the old Lancashire's shall decidedly prevail.
1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) ii. 72 It is important to notice this admixture of secular and lay authority.
1920 Conquest June 402/3 The enormously wide range of the acetylene explosive mixture..combined with the controllability that would result from its admixture with alcohol.
1946 W. S. Churchill Secret Session Speeches 82 Any admixture of De Gaullist troops at the outset would destroy all hope of a peaceful landing.
2002 Jrnl. Heredity 93 303/2 Nearly all captive individuals are derived from a history of genetic admixture with the adjacent Chinese subspecies, P. p. japonensis.
2. That which is mixed with or added to another thing; an additional ingredient. Now more usually: a blend of two or more elements, a mixture.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > that which is added as an ingredient
leavena1393
intermixture1586
admixture1607
amalgam1841
additive1901
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse ix. f. 54 It is intoxicated and tainted with bad admixture.
1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 71 in Scepsis Scientifica Natural Theory hath been very much hindered, and corrupted by Metaphysical admixtures.
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. i. 32 That soil is of all others the most fertile, which is the freest from what I call Extraneous or Foreign Admixtures.
1790 R. Kerr tr. A. Lavoisier Elements Chem. iii. viii. 438 Experiments of pneumatic chemistry with oxygen gas entirely free from any admixture of azotic gas.
1818 F. Accum Pract. Ess. Chem. Re-agents (ed. 2) 126 Increasing the admixture of oxymuriate.
1852 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (ed. 2) I. ii. 59 Its original patrician element might in time be completely absorbed in the plebeian admixture.
1878 A. H. Green et al. Coal: Hist. & Uses i. 7 The shales contain a large admixture of sand.
1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xix. 552 These qualities of oil are passed through a filter-press with an admixture of fuller's earth.
1949 F. Maclean Eastern Approaches i. iv. 40 Weak tea with a judicious admixture of mud and dead flies.
2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 Jan. 65/3 There are several all-day breakfast items, including..a porcupiney rice-and-refried-black-bean admixture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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