Meanings
plural mixtions
- archaiccountableuncountableThe act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture.
Nor are there hardly any who either treat of mutation or mixtion of sexes, who have not left some mention of this point […]
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17 - countableobsoleteuncountableA compound of drugs; a medicinal concoction.
- countableobsoleteuncountableA chemical compound.
- countableobsoleteuncountableThe addition of something as an ingredient; admixture; the presence of a heterogeneous element in a mixture or compound.
Origin
- Latinmixtiō
- Middle Frenchmixtion
- Englishmixtion
From Middle French mixtion, mixion, and its source, Latin mixtiō, from mixtus (“mixed”).
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