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unˈmixed, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 280 b, Myne odour..is as the pure balme vnmixt. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 111 Yet may a good huswife..haue mixt and vnmixt at hir pleasure. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 292 The Sarmatican kinde of horsses is..very fit for running, vnmixt, hauing a wel set body. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 742 Thy Saints unmixt, and from th' impure Farr separate. 1709Prior Henry & Emma 172 Great Heav'n, bestow Our Cup of Love unmix'd. 1753Hanway Trav. I. iii. li. 234 If mankind cannot think so abstractedly as a pure effort of unmixed reason implies. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1124 The Lowland or Fifeshire breed of cattle is rarely met with in an unmixed state. 1889S. Walpole Life Ld. J. Russell II. 26 Lord John could not derive unmixed comfort from [such] a victory.
b. Const. with or † from.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. v. 104 Thy Commandment all alone shall liue Within the Booke and Volume of my Braine, Vn⁓mixt with baser matter. 1660Sharrock Vegetables 29 There grew..wild Oates unmixt from any other weeds. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 767 Joys ever-young, unmix'd with pain or fear. 1816Byron Prisoner of Chillon 185 But these were horrors—this was woe Unmix'd with such. 1861Paley æschylus (ed. 2) Supplices 1054 note, The better part, though not unmixed with evil.
Hence unˈmixedness.
1612T. Wilson Chr. Dict., Puritie sig[nifieth] Vnmixednesse with sinne. 1681Dodwell Sanchoniathon's Phoenic. Hist. 87 The particular conveniences they enjoyed, above others,..and their unmixedness with the Prophane Vulgar. |