commixtion

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/kəˈmɪkst͡ʃən/

noun

The action of mixing or blending together; commingling.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nouncommixtion (countable and uncountable, plural commixtions)

plural commixtions · alternative commixion

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableThe action of mixing or blending together; commingling.
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableThe blending (of wines, etc.); garbling.
  3. 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
  4. countableobsoleteuncountableCommixture; a commixed condition or state.
  5. countableobsoleteuncountableA mixture; a compound.
  6. RomancountableuncountableScots lawlawA method of acquiring property by mixing or blending substances belonging to different proprietors.
  7. 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

  1. Latincommixtiōnem
  2. Middle Frenchcommixtion
  3. Middle Englishcommixtion
  4. Englishcommixtion

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

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APA

commixtion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commixtion

MLA

“commixtion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commixtion. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “commixtion,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commixtion.

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