Meanings
present singular third person commixes · participle present commixing · participle past commixed · past commixed · archaic participle past commixt · archaic past commixt · alternative comix
- transitiveTo mix separate things together.
Thalaba strove, but the thread Was woven by magic hands, And in his cheek the flush of shame Arose, commixt with fear.
1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC1 more example
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.
1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 272 - intransitiveTo become mixed; to amalgamate.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbto bring or combine together or with something else
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latincommisceō
- Latincommixtus
- Middle Englishcommixt
- Englishcommix
From Middle English commixt, commixte, commyxt (past participle), from Latin commixtus, past participle of commisceō, with the -t later re-analyzed as the past participial ending; equivalent to com- + mix, modelled on Latin commisceō.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech smíchat
- smíchatmix separate things
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commix. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commix
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