Meanings
plural commixtions · alternative commixion
- countableobsoleteuncountableThe action of mixing or blending together; commingling.
- countableobsoleteuncountableCoition; 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 - countableobsoleteuncountableCommixture; a commixed condition or state.
- countableobsoleteuncountableA mixture; a compound.
- RomancountableuncountableScots lawlawA method of acquiring property by mixing or blending substances belonging to different proprietors.
- countableuncountableChristianityThe putting of a small piece of the host into the chalice during Mass, typifying the reunion of body and soul at the resurrection.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latincommixtiōnem
- Middle Frenchcommixtion
- Middle Englishcommixtion
- Englishcommixtion
From Middle English commixtion, from Middle French commixtion, and its source, Latin commixtiōnem, from commiscēre (“to mix”).
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