commix
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English commixt, commixte, commyxt (past participle), from Latin commixtus,[1][2] past participle of commisceō, with the -t later re-analyzed as the past participial ending; equivalent to com- + mix, modelled on Latin commisceō.[3]
Verb[edit]
commix (third-person singular simple present commixes, present participle commixing, simple past and past participle commixed or (archaic) commixt)
- (transitive) To mix separate things together.
- 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
- Thalaba strove, but the thread
Was woven by magic hands,
And in his cheek the flush of shame
Arose, commixt with fear.
- 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 272:
- Admiration and rapture had been so commixed, so intensely excited, that those restraints existing in polished life, the punctilios practised, the etiquette preserved,—all, in the tumultuous thoughts of Harcourt, were banished, accounted but as cold reserve and useless forms.
- (intransitive) To become mixed; to amalgamate.
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Translations[edit]
mix separate things
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References[edit]
- ^ “commixt, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “commixed, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “commix, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
