Meanings
plural intermixtures
- A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.
- Admixture; also, an additional ingredient.
1 more example
The cheeſe, or caſeous part of milk, is formed into a maſs, and ſeparated from the other parts of the liquid, by the action of fire, by the acid fermentation of vvhich milk is liable, and by the intermixture of acids. This matter, vvhen vvell vvaſhed, is vvhite and ſolid, like the albumen of the blood.
1790, [Antoine-François de] Fourcroy, “Of the Milk”, in [William Nicholson], transl., Elements of Natural History and Chemistry. […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Elliot and T[homas] Kay, […]; Edinburgh: C[harles] Elliot, →OCLC, 4th part (The Animal Kingdom), page 182
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe act of mixing together
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
- Proto-Italic*n̥ter
- Latininter
- Latininter-
- Englishinter-
- Englishmixture
- Englishintermixture
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