commixtion
English
Etymology
From Middle French commixtion, and its source, Latin commixtionem, from commiscēre (“to mix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈmɪkst͡ʃən/
Noun
commixtion (countable and uncountable, plural commixtions)
- (obsolete) The action of mixing or blending together; commingling.
- (obsolete) The blending (of wines, etc.); garbling.
- (obsolete) coition; copulation; sexual intercourse.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- ‘Of that commixtion they did then beget / This hellish Dog, that hight the Blatant Beast […].’
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- (obsolete) commixture; a commixed condition or state.
- (obsolete) A mixture; a compound.
- (law) In Roman and Scottish law, a method of acquiring property by mixing or blending substances belonging to different proprietors.
- (Christianity) The putting of a small piece of the host into the chalice during Mass, typifying the reunion of body and soul at the resurrection.
References
- “commixtion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin commixtiō.
Noun
commixtion f (oblique plural commixtions, nominative singular commixtion, nominative plural commixtions)
- commixtion (act of mixing; result of this)