Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mixture; promiscuous commingling.
- noun Among French artists, a mixture of amber, mastic, and asphaltum used as a medium or mordant for affixing leaf-gold to wood or distemper pictures.
- noun In law, confusion of goods, that is, such an admixture of the property of two or more persons that it is impossible to determine the precise property of each.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Mixture.
- noun A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.
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- noun archaic The act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a
mixture . - noun obsolete A
compound ofdrugs ; a medicinalconcoction . - noun obsolete A chemical
compound . - noun obsolete In
gilding , a mixture ofamber ,mastic , andasphalt used as asize ormordant for affixinggold leaf to wood or todistemper pictures. - noun obsolete The addition of something as an ingredient;
admixture ; the presence of aheterogeneous element in a mixture or compound. - noun obsolete A kind of
cement made ofmastic ,amber , etc., used as amordant forgold leaf .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Empedocles, gluing, (as it were) and conjoining the elements together by heats, softnesses, and humidifies, gives them in some sort a mixtion and unitive composition; but these men who hunt and drive together the atoms, which they affirm to be immutable and impassible, compose nothing proceeding from them, but indeed make many and continual percussions of them.
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For the interlacement, hindering the dissolution, more and more augments the collision and concussion; so that there is neither mixtion nor adhesion and conglutination, but only a discord and combat, which according to them is called generation.
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And that we may not wonder at this, he says that this one drop will by mixtion extend through the whole world; than which I know not anything that can appear more absurd.
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Nature of mixtion somewhat more Generally, then the Chymists, who yet cannot deny that there are oftentimes Mixtures, and those very durable ones, made of Bodies that are not Elementary.
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If it be also Objected that this Notion of mine, concerning mixtion, though it may be allow'd, when Bodies already
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Yet scoop and lade it well a while, to make the mixtion more perfect, and set the working well on foot.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634
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Then put this mixtion into a deep Woodden dish (like a great Butter-box) which must first be on the inside a little greased with Butter, and a little Flower sprinkled thereon, to save the Pudding from sticking to the sides of the dish.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634
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Moses, the great lawgiver and chief philosopher, skilled in all the learning of the Egyptians, who was called the friend of God, and knew the mind of the Almighty, names this element the first in the creation: this is the element upon which the Spirit of God did first move, and is the chief ingredient in the creation: many philosophers have made it to comprehend all the other elements, and most allow it the chiefest in the mixtion of all living creatures.
The Complete Angler Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 1760
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Moses, the great lawgiver and chief philosopher, skilled in all the learning of the Egyptians, who was called the friend of God, and knew the mind of the Almighty, names this element the first in the creation: this is the element upon which the Spirit of God did first move, and is the chief ingredient in the creation: many philosophers have made it to comprehend all the other elements, and most allow it the chiefest in the mixtion of all living creatures.
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653
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