Dictionary

commixtion en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəˈmɪkst͡ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English commixtion, from Middle French commixtion, and its source, Latin commixtiōnem, from commiscēre (“to mix”).

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The action of mixing or blending together; commingling.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The blending (of wines, etc.); garbling.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Coition; copulation; sexual intercourse.
   • Of that commixtion they did then beget / This helliſh Dog, that hight the Blatant Beaſt; […] 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 426:
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Commixture; a commixed condition or state.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A mixture; a compound.
6. (Roman, countable, qualifier:Scots law, uncountable) A method of acquiring property by mixing or blending substances belonging to different proprietors.
7. (countable, uncountable) The putting of a small piece of the host into the chalice during Mass, typifying the reunion of body and soul at the resurrection.

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