commixtures

The combined modularity and bounciness of body parts suggest that life is spring-loaded for change, for outrageous commixtures, the wildest fusion cuisine.

Built in Capacity for Change is Called What? 2007

“Alas!” replied Candide, “I remember to have heard my master Pangloss say that such accidents as these frequently came to pass in former times, and that these commixtures are productive of centaurs, fauns, and satyrs; and that many of the ancients had seen such monsters; but I looked upon the whole as fabulous.”

Candide 2007

And therefore continuance in an open vessel is best for separations; in a vessel quite closed for commixtures; in a vessel partly closed, but with the air entering, for putrefactions.

The New Organon 2005

We find means to make commixtures and copulations of divers kinds, which have produced many new kinds, and them not barren, as the general opinion is.

The New Atlantis 2002

The _Pægma_ base or subiect for this metaline machine to stand vpon, was of one solyde peece of marble (of fit and conuenient breadth, heighth, and length, for that purpose accordinglye proportioned) full of streaming vaines, sondry coulered, and diuerslye spotted, maruelous pleasant to the eye, in infinite commixtures, confusedly disposed.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

_Andracine_ with white spottes, and many others of strange sorts and diuers commixtures.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

They are the various forms of narrative, the forms in which a story may be told; and while they are many, they are not indeed so very many, though their modifications and their commixtures are infinite.

The Craft of Fiction Percy Lubbock 1922

We find means to make commixtures and copulations of different kinds; which have produced many new kinds, and them not barren, as the general opinion is.

Paras 60-91 1909

Such stews, such soups, such broils, such wonderful commixtures of things diverse in nature and antagonistic in properties such daring culinary experiments in combining materials never before attempted to be combined.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

Such stews, such soups, such broils, such wonderful commixtures of things diverse in nature and antagonistic in properties such daring culinary experiments in combining materials never before attempted to be combined.

Andersonville — Volume 1 John McElroy 1887