Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Incapable of being commixed or commingled; that cannot be mixed or combined.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not commiscible; not mixable.

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  • adjective Not commiscible; not mixable.

Etymologies

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Latin incommiscibilis; pref. in- not + commiscibilis that can be mingled.

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Examples

  • Printing; navigation; all mensuration; the handling of metals and every material -- all these took a sudden leap forward with the _Renaissance_, the revival of arts: that vast stirring of the later Middle Ages which promised to give us a restored antiquity Christianized: which was burnt in the flame of a vile fanaticism, and has left us nothing but ashes and incommiscible salvage.

    Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Hilaire Belloc 1911

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  • Unable to be mixed or intermingled. (from Phrontistery)

    May 25, 2008