Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Another spelling of
mixed .
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- verb Archaic spelling of
mixed . - adjective Archaic spelling of
mixed .
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Examples
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The form of government which is usually termed mixt has always appeared to me to be a mere chimera.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Various 1885
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Elements, are made of those he calls mixt Bodies, then mix'd Bodies of the Elements.
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Ef you'd a drappod in at Atlanty, you mought er seed my name mixt up in a warrant. "
Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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As true Wit consists in the Resemblance of Ideas, and false Wit in the Resemblance of Words, according to the foregoing Instances; there is another kind of Wit which consists partly in the Resemblance of Ideas, and partly in the Resemblance of Words; which for Distinction Sake I shall call mixt Wit.
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_Miscibilium alteratorum Unio_, that seems to comport much better with the Opinion of the Chymists, then with that of their Adversaries, since according to that as the newly mention'd Example declares, there is but a _Juxta_-position of separable Corpuscles, retaining each its own Nature, whereas according to the _Aristotelians_, when what they are pleas'd to call a mixt Body results from the Concourse of the
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And that may be faid to be impure or mixt, which is partly voluntary, and partly involun - tary; voluntary abfolutely or upon the whole, but fecundum quidy or in a certain refpefit in - voluntary, or againft the inclination of the Will.
An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for ... 1704
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I guess them cardboard eggs aint very strong, or mebbe the censer didn't handel it gently, ennyhow it was smasht and the curl inside it was there alrite only it was kind of mixt up with the cream candy and I was unmixin them when
Deer Godchild Marguerite Bernard
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For, as we know, English was born of “mixt” and “mangeled” tongues, and has only grown increasingly “mixt” since then—perhaps especially during the Renaissance, when far-flung non-Indo-European “tungs” added long lists of new reasons for some to cheer and others to despair.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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For, as we know, English was born of “mixt” and “mangeled” tongues, and has only grown increasingly “mixt” since then—perhaps especially during the Renaissance, when far-flung non-Indo-European “tungs” added long lists of new reasons for some to cheer and others to despair.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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His death was occasiond by an unconquerable mixt fever, malignant to a high degree, He is oblidged to be buried sooner than usual, Poor Peter call'd with the news, but could not talk.
Letter 266 2009
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