Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mixtion .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Mixture.
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- noun obsolete
mixture
Etymologies
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Examples
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And if it be objected, that unless the _Hypothesis_ I oppose be admitted, in such Cases as I have proposed there would not be an Union but a Destruction of mingled Bodies, which seems all one as to say, that of such Bodies there is no mistion at all; I answer, that
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I consider then (resumes _Carneades_) that, not to mention those improper Kinds of mistion, wherein _Homogeneous_ Bodies are Joyn'd, as when Water is mingl'd with water, or two Vessels full of the same kind of Wine with one another, the mistion I am now to Discourse of seems,
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_though_, perhaps, some other and better Account may be propos'd, upon which the name of mistion may remain; yet if what I have said be thought Reason, I shall not wrangle about Words, though I think it fitter to alter a Terme of Art, then reject a new Truth, because it suits not with it.
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Aqueous ones; Unless I say this be said, I see not how that Absurdity will be avoyded, whereunto the Stoical Notion of mistion (namely by
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