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intermixture|ɪntəˈmɪkstjʊə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -ure: cf. L. mixtūra mixture.]
1. The action of intermixing or fact of being intermixed; intimate mixture (of two or more things together, or of one thing with another).
1592Warner Alb. Eng. (title-p.), With Intermixture of Histories and Inuention. 1658T. Wall Charact. Enem. Ch. 43 Confused and incongruous intermixture of the different kinds of prayer. 1672Newton in Phil. Trans. VII. 5098 This Whiteness is produced by a successive Intermixture of the Colours, without their being assimilated. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Norwich, From the intermixture of its houses with trees, it is called a city in an orchard. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §7. 418 In the intermixture of tragedy and comedy..the dramas of England and Spain are remarkably alike.
2. concr. or quasi-concr. Something, or a quantity or portion of something, intermixed with or added to something else.
1586Warner (title) The First and Second Parts of Albion's England..with Historicall Intermixtures, Inuention, and Varietie. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 306 They profane and desecrate her Worship with those sinful Intermixtures they infuse into it. 1845Carlyle Cromwell (1872) I. i. 16, I have seen a fifth edition with foreign intermixtures. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. xii. (1875) 188 It is at least probable that her population [Venice] never received an intermixture of Teutonic settlers. |