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‖ ˈmixtum Obs. rare.
[med.L. mixtum, neut. of mixtus mixed ppl. a. Cf. miste v.]
1. In monastic rule: A slight refection.
c1490Caxton Rule St. Benet xxxviii. 131 The reder may afore his lecture take a lytyll refeccyon that is called mixtum yf nede be for by-cause of his redyng atte mete. [1823Crabbe Technol. Dict., Mixtum (Archæol.), a breakfast, or a certain quantity of bread and wine.]
2. = mixt n. 1.
1656[? J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 207 A Mixtum, therefore is a body of certain parts, of divers degrees of rarity and density [etc.]. Ibid. 215 The nature of Mixtum's, which consist in the Number and Proportion of rare and dense bodies, follows [etc.]. |