mixedadj.²

Brit.

/mɪkst/, U.S.

/mɪkst/, Australian English

/mɪkst/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s mixte, late Middle English–1500s myxt, late Middle English–1500s myxte, late Middle English– mixt (now archaic and nonstandard), 1500s mixid, 1500s myxed, 1500s myxyd, 1500s– mixed; Scottish pre-1700 mixit, pre-1700 myxit, pre-1700 myxt, pre-1700 1700s–1800s mixt, pre-1700 1700s– mixed, 1800s mixéd (poetic).

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mixt, miste; Latin mixtus, miscēre.

Etymology: Originally < Anglo-Norman mixt, mixte mixed, specifically used of mixed blood (early 12th cent. in a legal context), of the nature of both a real and a personal action (c1290: see sense 2a) and Middle French miste, mixte mixed, consisting of different elements or qualities (12th cent. in Old French) and their etymon classical Latin mixtus partaking of two or more kinds, composite, mixed, varied, mixed with water, diluted, specific use of past participle of miscēre to mix (see mix v.; with sense 2a compare also post-classical Latin actio mixta (1362 in a British source)). In later use apprehended as < mix v. + -ed suffix¹.The word has the appearance of an English past participle or participial adjective in -t , which would regularly have an alternative form in -ed (compare blest , blessed (see bless v.¹), vext , vexed : see vex v.)), and thus the forms in -ed , -id , -yd came into use very early (compare -ed suffix¹); compare later mix v. and mixt v. The spelling mixt in the 17th cent. is probably in most instances merely phonetic, but may sometimes indicate that the word was still apprehended as an adoption of Latin mixtus rather than as the participle of an English verb. In the 19th cent. the spelling mixt sometimes occurs in historical use with a legal sense (see e.g. quot. 1818 at sense 2a), but is otherwise subsequently used only by writers who advocate spelling reform or in poetical use. Classical Latin miscēre is from a suffixed form (also seen in Early Irish mesc mixed, mescaim to mix (Irish measc, Scottish Gaelic measg to mix); compare Welsh mysgu to mix) of the Indo-European base represented by Sanskrit miśra (adjective) mixed, together with, Avestan mišti (adverb) together, with one another, Old Church Slavonic měsiti to mix, Russian mesit′ to knead, Lithuanian mišrus mixed, compound, hybrid, mišti to become mixed, maišyti to stir, mix. A parallel base with voiced rather than voiceless stop is represented by the ancient Greek aorist μιγῆναι (the present μιγνύναι is secondary), with a corresponding extended form seen in μίσγειν. The relationship of the classical Latin past participle form mixtus to this base and to the phonologically regular classical Latin past participle form mistus is unclear. The meaning of Vedic Sanskrit mikṣ-, sometimes adduced as a parallel, is uncertain.

1. Consisting of different or dissimilar elements or qualities; not of one kind, not pure or simple; composite.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [adjective]

compoundc1400

jointc1400

pieced1419

mixed?a1425

complexionatec1430

partyc1500

concrete1536

compost?1541

united1567

composed1570

compounded1570

integral1588

compositive1601

integrate1601

complicate1638

complexa1652

complicated1667

composite1678

co-unala1711

conglomerate1835

polylithic1961

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 90^v To drie þe pacient particule bi farmaciez of myxte vertue, viz of repercussyng & of diaforetyng.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 920 Myxed lyght is devyded in four partes.

1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. G.iiii A foote of two sillables, is eyther simple or mixt, that is, of like time or of diuers.

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 123 Mixt conditions are those which are partlie arbitrarie and partlie casuall.

1636 C. Butler Princ. Musik ii. i. 93 Musik is divided into Vocal, Instrumental, and Mixt.

1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith iv. 25 David was punished according to the rule of that mixed and fatherly justice, which keeps a due proportion between the sin, and the punishment.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 62. ¶6 Mixt Wit therefore is a Composition of Punn and true Wit.

1742 C. Cibber Let. to Pope 34 What a merry mixt Mortal has Nature made you?

1790 Monthly Rev. 3 485 The mixed atomists, who ascribe the power of thinking to some inherent power in matter.

1818 M. Edgeworth Let. 13 Oct. (1971) 114 There were mixed motives I grant... Lord Byron was distressed for money. To be sure he could have had other fortunes but then there was vanity.

1849 J. C. Hare Serm. Preacht Herstmonceux Church II. 469 Man is a mixt being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xix. 294 In such a mixed humour, I made up what it pleases me to call my mind.

1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. iii. 18 None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives.

1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) x. 162 Involvement of peritonsillar tissues with abscess formation..probably results most often from a mixed infection.

1994 H. Burton Leonard Bernstein v. xxxiv. 394 He asked me for a ‘mixed’ voice... It was difficult to find something half way between full voice and falsetto.

a. Law. Of an action or plea: of the nature of both a real and a personal action (personal adj. 6a); involving a claim for both restitution and damages. Now historical.With the abolition of real actions (see personal adj. 7a), mixed actions necessarily came to an end.

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1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 139 Any action real personall and myxte apon any person or persons.

1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 26 §4 Al actions personals..and al actions mixte..shall be sued by originall writte.

c1610 F. Bacon Case of Post-nati Scotl. (1641) 12 But for free-hold, or lease, or actions reall, or mixt: he is not inabled, except [etc.].

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 228 This action of waste is a mixed action; partly real, so far as it recovers land, and partly personal, so far as it recovers damages.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 532 In pleas real or mixt.

1888 T. C. Williams in Law Q. Rev. 4 398 Mixed actions partook of the nature both of real and personal actions.

1928 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 22 312 For the exercise of real actions in respect of real property, and for that of mixed actions to determine boundary and partition of common property.

b. gen. Mingled or blended together; assorted; formed by the mingling or combining of different substances, articles, individuals, etc.In quot. 1482 applied spec. to adulterated wine.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective]

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meddleda1387

melleda1393

blenda1400

entremedly?a1425

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commixed?1440

mingleda1475

medleyed1480

mixed1482

intermista1552

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intermingled1586

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confluentiala1711

confluent1814

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blent1872

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > prepared by mixing

compoundc1400

confectedc1550

compounded1600

mixed1611

1482 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 144 Corrupt or mixt wyne.

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. Q iv b Thou hedlong threwst thyself on myxyd heapes of enmyes slain.

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxiii. 30 They that tarry long at the wine, they that goe to seeke mixt wine.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders sig. g4 A Building, either made of stone, brick, or mixt.

1682 London Gaz. No. 1685/4 A mix'd Stuff Suit, and clouded Stockings.

1717 D. Defoe Mem. Church of Scotl. iii. 174 The Word is said to be taken from a mixt Drink the poor Men drank in their Wanderings compos'd of Water and sour Milk.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 20 With mixt Manure she surfeits the rank Soil.

1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick p. xviii Abstain from all Mixt, all high-season'd Food.

1846 W. B. Scott Year of World iii. iv. 63 She hath tasted, and she must abide What change the mixéd potion shall perform.

1861 F. W. Robinson No Church II. 238 A plate of mixed biscuits.

1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ iv. 83 Captain Allistoun..stood composed in the tumult, listening with profound attention to mixed growls and screeches.

1938 Amer. Home Jan. 14/2 Then, as a mixed hedgerow, against what would soon be a mass of the greens of honeysuckle and bittersweet, we set different species of both shrubby viburnums and dogwoods.

1991 S. Seddon Travel (BNC) 80 The plane left London..with a mixed cargo of clotted cream, grouse, newspapers, a quantity of leather and some passengers.

a. Of a substance: composed of different elements; compound. Esp. in mixed body. Cf. mixt n. 2. Now historical.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > substance consisting of mixed elements

mixtion1481

mixed bodya1500

mixture1604

compounda1616

mixt1644

mixtum1656

a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1891 (MED) Remembre how in euery mixte thinge, Euermore oon element desirith to be kinge.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 60^v The sea in this treatise, hath place as a mixed substaunce, for els the element of waters being simple, were not here to be spoken of.

1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xiii. 145 As if light were a qualitie resulting of an elementarie composition, it beeing created before all mixed bodies.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 63 Mixt bodies are twofold, imperfectand perfect.

1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist ii. 212 Multitudes of these fiery Corpuscles, getting in at the Pores of the Glass, may associate themselves with the parts of the mixt Body, whereon they work, and with them Constitute new Kinds of Compound Bodies.

1682 R. Boyle Noctiluca 137 The Atoms of the Fire, may every whit as reasonably be supposed, to Associate themselves variously with the Corpuscles of a Mixt Body.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 56 Glass appears to be the true elementary earth, and all mixed bodies are only glass in disguise.

1994 W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire i. 28 For Mitchell, mixed bodies are made up of clearly defined particles of terminally small size: for Aristotle they are probably not.

b. Of a government or system of government: combining features of two or more recognized types, as monarchy, democracy, etc.

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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > other systems > [adjective] > combining features of different systems

mixeda1538

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 120 For thys cause the most wyse men..affyrme a myxte state to be of al other the best, & most convenyent to conserve the hole out of tyranny.

1650 T. Hobbes De Corpore Politico 72 This Policy they call Mixt Monarchy, or Mixt Aristocracy, or mixt Democracy, according as any of these three sorts do most visibly predominate.

1772 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (new ed.) I. ii. 12 Unbounded liberty of the press..is one of the evils, attending those mixt forms of government.

1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. iii. 29 The British Constitution, the most perfect example of Mixed Government.

1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) i. 12 The ancient republic of Sparta was a Mixed Aristocracy.

1869 J. S. Mill Subject. Women i. 7 The government of women over men,..and such mixed..modes of government as might be invented.

1970 H. Arendt On Violence 72 A new system, which he [sc. Pareto] called ‘Pluto-democracy’—a mixed form of government, plutocracy being the bourgeois regime and democracy the regime of the workers.

c. Mathematics. = mixtilinear adj. Formerly also (occasionally): †(of a surface) partly plane and partly curved (obsolete). Now rare.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > polygonal > bounded by curved and straight lines

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mixtilinear1702

mixtilineal1833

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Defin. And if it be partlie plaine, and partlie crooked, then is it called a Myxte platte.

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 2^v A mixt angle is that which is caused..of a right line and a crooked.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. f. 128 Of plaine Angles,..some are said to be mixt, because the one line is crooked and the other right.

1702 J. Raphson Math. Dict. at Angle Angle mixed or mixtilinear.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Figures Mixt, are such as are bounded partly by right Lines, and partly by crooked ones, as a Semicircle.

1957 Encycl. Brit. I. 928/2 The angle..is measured by the angle formed by tangents to the curves at their common point; it may also be formed by a curve and a straight line (mixed angle).

a. Combining different racial or ethnic elements; combining elements from different communities or cultures.

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c1600 W. Fowler tr. N. Machiavelli Prince in Wks. (1936) II. 102 Off assisting suddarts mixtes and of these that ar..duelling within the prencis dominioun.

1700 E. Littleton et al. Let. 16 Nov. in W. Hedges Diary (1888) II. p. ccix It's alsoe of very ill consequence that your Covenant Servants should intermarry with any of the people of the Country or those of mixed Race or Mustechees.

1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World iii. 96 A mixed breed of Creolian Spaniards.

1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 63 The Romans, Saxons, Normans, and the Danes,..A mixed race, sprung partly from them all, Holds now the pow'r.

1826 J. Malcolm Polit. Hist. India 1784–1823 II. xi. 248 The mixed population of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, made up of European Half Castes, or Anglo-Indians.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. iv. 164 A person of mixed European and Indian descent.

1894 A. C. Haddon Decorative Art Brit. New Guinea 184 Following Dr E. T. Hamy, I adopt the term Massims as a collective name for the mixed people inhabiting the archipelagoes off the south-east of New Guinea.

1932 J. Carey Aissa Saved iv. 24 The new town on the waterside, inhabited by Hansas, Nupes, Yorubas, the mixed population of a harbour.

1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. ii. 11 My father was..a Swiss citizen, of mixed French and Austrian descent.

1994 i-D Oct. 117/1 The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers..are a team of racially mixed American suburban teens who [etc.].

2000 C. Holdsclaw & J. Frey Chamique vi. 78 My uncle Thurman's wife is Native American and the kids are mixed, and my cousin Elon is married to a Filipino woman, and their kids are mixed.

b. Comprising or containing people from different backgrounds or of different social status; not restricted to people of one class, etc.Sometimes (as in quot. 1818) with overtones of disapproval.

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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [adjective] > miscellaneous (of company)

mixed1611

promiscuous1753

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [adjective] > including those who are

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1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xii. 38 And a mixed multitude went vp also with them.

1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee 199 You cannot away with mixt communions.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels II. 249 This Parable was spoken before a mixt and numerous Auditory.

1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) No. 5. 42 A free Manner of Speaking in mixt Company.

1797 Lady H. Newdigate Let. 26 July in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) xiv. 196 Y^e Scene was..very like Vauxhall, only without Trees; y^e Company still more mixt.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lv. 29 The company is ‘mix'd’ (the phrase I quote is, As much as saying, they're below your notice).

1820 W. Hazlitt in London Mag. Sept. 253 The conversation of authors..is better than any other. That of mixed company becomes utterly intolerable.

1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans 305 As far as my social experience goes (and I have kept very mixed company) there is no class in English society in which a good deal of Drinkwater pronunciation does not pass unchallenged save by the expert phonetician.

1902 T. M. Lindsay Church & Ministry in Early Centuries ii. 49 The population of Corinth was as mixed as that of Alexandria.

1961 Guardian 20 Sept. 6/6 ‘They are a pretty mixed bunch,’ said Lady Delacombe. One runs a night club, another is a fortune-teller.

1992 D. Morgan Rising in West ii. iv. 65 The whites that moved into the Greater South beyond the Mississippi were a mixed group of former cotton farmers,..and farm laborers.

c. For, involving, or comprising both sexes. See also mixed school n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > suitable for either sex or gender

mixed1644

bisexous1646

cock and hen1785

ambosexual1788

transsexual1907

heterosexual1912

unisexual1932

bi-gendered1961

gender-neutral1963

unisex1966

pangender1978

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 Who shall regulat all the mixt conversation of our youth, male and female together, as is the fashion of this Country?

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 768 Nor in Court Amours Mixt Dance, or wanton Mask, or Midnight Bal.

1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Mar. (1932) (modernized text) III. 892 The mixed companies of men and women of fashion..unbend and refresh the mind.

1816 J. Austen Emma II. xvii. 329 Walk half-a-mile to another man's house, for the sake of being in mixed company till bed-time.

1873 Overland Monthly Jan. 99 All of which have been reharmonized for mixed voices.

1899 Daily News 2 Aug. 6/6 He was, he said, a convert to the mixed system in education.

1937 R. Kipling Something of Myself ii. 86 I left him in charge of a ‘mixed’ College in New Zealand.

1973 A. Broinowski Take One Ambassador ix. 131 Nance Donnelly..objected..to jokes about sex in mixed company. It was alright, a bit of dirt between men... But not with ladies present.

1990 D. Johnson Health & Happiness (1991) xxxix. 154 Two youngish couples—one male, one mixed—introduced themselves as they waited for someone to answer the door.

1992 D. Morgan Rising in West ii. vii. 128 His church forbade drinking, smoking, and gambling and frowned on dancing,..mixed bathing, [etc.] and the cutting or permanent waving of women's hair.

5. Of a science: involving or dealing with matter; not pure or simply theoretical; applied. Now historical. mixed mathematics n. applied mathematics.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [adjective] > kinds of

philosophical?a1513

mixed1605

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occulta1652

applied1832

statistical1885

marine scientific1937

soft1966

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh3 The mathematicks are either pvre, or mixt:..Mixt hath for subiect some Axiomes or parts of Naturall Philosop[h] ie.

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. ii. 12 Mathematicks..is usually divided into pure and mixed.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mixt Mathematicks, are those Arts and Sciences which treat of the Properties of Quantity, apply'd to material Beings, or sensible Objects; as Astronomy, Geography, Navigation, Dialling, Surveying, Gauging, &c.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Gen. Introd. or Treat. on Method 38 in Encycl. Metrop. I We call those [sciences] mixed in which certain ideas of the mind, are applied to the general properties of bodies.

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 2 The finest model of an automatic manufacture of mixed chemistry is the five-coloured calico machine.

1874 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 37 114 The mere enumeration of his contributions to pure and mixed mathematics would occupy a very large space.

1926 H. Bagchi Course Math. Anal. p. i Other casual references to Mixed Mathematics, made in the concluding chapter, will, it is hoped, justify their introduction.

1973 Nature 13 Apr. 482/1 Mathematics were indeed cultivated, but it seems to have been the ‘mixed’ or applied branch rather than higher mathematics.

6. Medicine.

a. Characterized by the symptoms or signs of two or more different diseases.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [adjective] > presenting symptoms of two diseases

mixed1612

1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke 14 A mixt and diuers coloured iaundies.

1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 275 The assemblage of symptoms will generally be of a mixt nature.

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Mixed Fever,..a fever having a mixture of the symptoms of an inflammatory and a typhus fever, being a combination of Synocha and Typhus.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 445 Where the case is marked by a moderate amount of œdema, and a moderate amount of paralysis, it is sometimes called mixed beriberi.

1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) vi. 59 At C, D and E the vertical meridian will be in the condition of a myopic, and the horizontal still in that of a hypermetropic eye; this is called mixed astigmatism.

b. Of a tumour: involving or apparently composed of more than one type of cell or tissue; spec. designating an adenoma or carcinoma of a salivary gland that has areas of stroma resembling connective tissue.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [adjective] > tumour > other tumours

sublated1647

polypous1684

polypose1722

extravasate1728

flatulent1730

primary1793

mammary1804

osteosarcomatous1825

polypoid1827

carcinoid1830

homoeomorphous1832

melanoid1839

polypiform1846

tyromatous1848

non-malignant1852

extravasated1853

adenomatous1863

histioid1864

histoid1865

myxomatous1872

small-cell1872

lymphadenomatous1873

polypoidal1873

lymphomatous1876

myomatous1876

lympho-sarcomatous1880

haematomatous1886

fibro-lipomatous1889

teratomatous1891

mixed1892

fibro-adenomatous1894

psammomatous1897

tunnelled1898

mycosic1899

radioresistant1922

melanomatous1943

sarcoid-like1943

paragangliomatous1965

oncofetal1972

1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mixed Mixed nævus, one in which the true skin and the subcutaneous connective tissue are both involved.

1903 Jrnl. Obstet. & Gynæcol. July 54 Either at once (congenital tumours) or after an interval (mixed tumours of later life) this developes into an imperfect organism—a teratoma or embryoma.

1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. xiii. 307 Embryonal and mixed tumors are most frequently mixed salivary gland tumors, Wilm's tumor of the kidney, and testicular and teratomatous tumors.

1993 Sci. News 25 Sept. 207/1 Compared with the 56 women who did not take tamoxifen, the 15 who did were..almost twice as likely to develop mixed mullerian tumors.

7. Made up of good and bad, or positive and negative elements; having both good and bad qualities; equivocal.In later use often with negative connotations, as being by implication less satisfactory than a purely good or positive feeling, review, etc.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > of mixed composition or character > specific good and bad

mixed1745

1745 J. Wesley Answer to Rev. Church 11 I have described them, as of a Mixt Character, with much Evil among them, but more Good.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 13 This gentleman, who is of a mixed reputation.

1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 ii. 50 The life, character, transactions, and writings of that mixed man [sc. Voltaire].

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 343 Every circumstance that relates to this prince appears of a mixed and doubtful nature.

1801 C. B. Brockden Clara Howard 194 I had not time to subdue those trembling and mixed feelings which the sight of her produced.

1816 J. Austen Emma II. viii. 163 With mixed feelings, she seated herself at a little distance from the numbers round the instrument, to listen.

1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel I. xx As regards the older boys it is a monastery, and the results are about as mixed as in the monastery of old times.

1886 Polit. Sci. Q. 1 136 We cannot turn from the contemplation of the Berlin Conference without mixed feelings.

1958 Listener 18 Sept. 408/2 President Eisenhower's nation-wide broadcast speech..had a mixed reception in America itself.

1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. ii. 1/4 Early reviews were mixed, somewhat on the negative side.

†8. colloquial. Mentally confused, muddled; spec. (chiefly Scottish) somewhat befuddled with drink. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk

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in drink1598

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drink-drowned1600

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bumpsy1611

foxed1611

in one's cups1611

liquored1611

love-pot1611

pot-sick1611

whift1611

owl-eyed1613

fapa1616

hota1616

inebriated1615

reeling ripea1616

in one's (or the) pots1618

scratched1622

high-flown?1624

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temulentive1628

ebrious1629

temulent1629

jug-bitten1630

pot-shaken1630

toxed1635

bene-bowsiea1637

swilled1637

paid1638

soaken1651

temulentious1652

flagonal1653

fuddled1656

cut1673

nazzy1673

concerned1678

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ebriose1871

shicker1872

parlatic1877

miraculous1879

under the influence1879

ginned1881

shickered1883

boiled1886

mosy1887

to be loaded for bear(s)1888

squiffeda1890

loaded1890

oversparred1890

sozzled1892

tanked1893

orey-eyed1895

up the (also a) pole1897

woozy1897

toxic1899

polluted1900

lit-up1902

on (also upon) one's ear1903

pie-eyed1903

pifflicated1905

piped1906

spiflicated1906

jingled1908

skimished1908

tin hat1909

canned1910

pipped1911

lit1912

peloothered1914

molo1916

shick1916

zigzag1916

blotto1917

oiled-up1918

stung1919

stunned1919

bottled1922

potted1922

rotto1922

puggled1923

puggle1925

fried1926

crocked1927

fluthered1927

lubricated1927

whiffled1927

liquefied1928

steamed1929

mirackc1930

overshot1931

swacked1932

looped1934

stocious1937

whistled1938

sauced1939

mashed1942

plonked1943

stone1945

juiced1946

buzzed1952

jazzed1955

schnockered1955

honkers1957

skunked1958

bombed1959

zonked1959

bevvied1960

mokus1960

snockered1961

plotzed1962

over the limit1966

the worse for wear1966

wasted1968

wired1970

zoned1971

blasted1972

Brahms and Liszt?1972

funked up1976

trousered1977

motherless1980

tired and emotional1981

ratted1982

rat-arsed1984

wazzed1990

mullered1993

twatted1993

bollocksed1994

lashed1996

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [adjective]

redelessOE

mopishc1300

tottedc1500

addle1534

muddy?1571

addle1576

foggya1591

foggy-brained1594

addled1599

addle-headed1600

bezzled1604

addle-pated1614

addle-brained1619

buzzle-headeda1644

puzzle-headed1729

puzzle-pated1736

muddle-headed1760

ramble-headeda1761

hulver-headed1785

ramfeezled1786

muddled1790

hoddy-doddya1798

muzzy-headed1798

bother-headed1820

muddle-pated1823

pixilated1848

woolly1864

bungle-headed1865

mixed1880

muddlesome1887

wifty1918

woozy1941

spastic1981

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Mixt,..2. Denoting partial intoxication.

1872 Leeds Mercury 29 Aug. in J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang (1896) IV. 325/1 ‘No, Sir, he was not drunk, and he wornt sober.’ ‘You say he wasn't drunk?’ ‘No, Sir, he was mixed.’

1880 Punch 4 Sept. 106 Tomkins's First Session... Rather ‘mixed’ after twenty-one hours' continuous sitting, he says [etc.].

1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol II. i. xxiv. 106 I am myself a man of peace, who only carried a gun four times, and grew rather ‘mixed’ over it.

1893 Littell's Living Age 11 Feb. 432/3 I..find myself..in the snow, with my ideas rather mixed, my feet in the air, and the trunk of a young pine-tree..between my legs.

9. Phonetics. = central adj. 7.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [adjective] > types of

openeOE

sharp?1533

simple1582

small1599

soft1625

obscurea1637

round1710

slender1755

close1760

wide1824

lowered1836

narrow1844

labialized1856

orinasal1856

central1857

reduced1861

free1864

high1867

low1867

mid1867

mixed1867

rounded1867

unrounded1871

raised1876

unreduced1894

obscured1897

spread1902

lax1909

slack1909

tense1909

centralized1926

flat1934

r-coloured1935

checked1943

1867 A. M. Bell Visible Speech: Sci. Universal Alphabetics 72 The vowels..are divided into three classes of palato-lingual formations, according as the oral cavity is moulded mainly by the ‘Back’, the ‘Front’, or the ‘Mixed’ (Back and Front) attitudes of the tongue.

1890 H. Sweet Primer Spoken Eng. 4 In the vowels we distinguish three horizontal positions, or degrees of retraction of the tongue: back, mixed, front.

1918 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics 17 An example of a mixed vowel is the vowel in bird.

1966 M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. Mixed vowel, Migliorini's term for middle vowel.

10.

a. Agriculture. Designating, relating to, or practising a system of agriculture which combines the raising of livestock with the cultivation of arable crops. Esp. in mixed farm, mixed farming.

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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming

high culture1771

scientific farming1789

metaying1792

high farming1815

petite culture1848

sharefarming1857

urban agriculture1860

bush-farming1866

mixed farming1872

dry farming1878

co-aration1883

co-ploughing1883

smallholding1889

power-farming1913

dry-land farming1914

third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940

link system1950

green revolution1968

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > other farms

home farm1749

city farm1750

county farm1785

factory farm1824

bird farm1842

provision farm1846

spade-farm1848

bush-farm1851

poor farm1852

sewage farm1870

cacao farm1871

mixed farm1872

vertical farm1897

prison farm1961

nuplex1968

1872 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1871 9 66 The majority of farmers, fruit-growers or others, generally succeed best by what is called mixed farming.

1889 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 4 24 Grain-raising everywhere means exhaustion of the soil; mixed agriculture, properly directed, returns to the soil as much as it takes therefrom.

1892 W. E. Swanton Notes on N.Z. ii. 89 The farm upon which, as in England, both sheep and cattle are carried and also crops are grown..is what is generally called a ‘mixed farm’.

1909 R. Kaleski Austral. Settler's Compl. Guide 12 The..mixed farmer selects too much.

1913 W. K. Harris Outback in Austral. xxiv. 169 The district is an ideal one for ‘mixed farming’ (wheat and sheep).

1942 E. Afr. Ann. 1941–2 128/2 Friends who own a mixed farm ask us over. The first signs of their successful management are the calves.

1958 Jrnl. Ecol. 46 220 The clayey soils carry cacao and food crops, often in mixed cultivation.

1973 Country Life 15 Mar. 713/2 In the southern region of England..the average price of mixed farms of 10–49 acres..rose to £915 an acre.

1990 Farmer's Weekly (Perth) 11 Oct. 19/4 (advt.) ‘Canabulup’ represents an excellent managed mixed farming property..with beautiful balanced soils.

b. Town Planning. Designating the employment of an area of land for a combination of purposes (such as business and residential).

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1932 Planning for Resid. Districts (President's Conf. Home Building) i. 18 Districts of one-time high grade residences..[were] given over to..mixed business and residence use.

1950 R. Dewey in Amer. Sociol. Rev. 15 503/2 The ecological processes of invasion and succession kept the situation fluid, creating problems of mixed land use on the periphery of the transition zone.

1991 J. Garreau Edge City vii. 247 These would be dense, walkable centers, a quarter of a mile in radius, with mixed use: residential, jobs, shopping.

2000 Toronto Star (Electronic ed.) 17 July More people living and working in the city. Intensification and mixed land use on arterial corridors [etc.].

Compounds

C1. With nouns, forming compounds used attributively with the sense ‘having or involving a mixed ——’, or ‘having a mixture of types of ——’.

mixed-ability adj. (also as n.).

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1963 Guardian 28 Jan. 7/4 Everyone asks Mr Morris..how mixed-ability classes affect the number of grammar school entrances.

1989 G. Claxton Being Teacher (BNC) 3 The recent history of educational innovation, from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards.

1999 Press (Canterbury, N.Z.) (Electronic ed.) 19 June Mixed-ability teaching is being discouraged in favour of streaming by ability.

mixed-crew adj.

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1963 Daily Tel. 25 June 1/1 President Kennedy and Dr. Adenauer agreed in Bonn to-night that the proposed mixed-crew NATO nuclear force was ‘a good instrument for serving all members of the alliance in combining their defence efforts’.

mixed-fleet adj.

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1964 Economist 17 Oct. 228/2 A..contribution to the mixed-fleet command.

1986 Science 13 June 1336/1 It is not at all clear how the mixed-fleet strategy can be made to work in practice.

mixed-function adj.

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1957 Adv. Enzymol. 19 128 The term ‘mixed function oxidase’ is here applied to enzymes having two interdependent catalytic activities, reduction of one atom of an oxygen molecule coupled to specific oxygenation or hydroxylation with the other atom.

1999 Jrnl. Molecular Evol. 49 108 Sequencing of an 8182-bp chromosomal region in Pseudomonas stutzeri revealed the major portion of an apparent mixed-function supraoperon.

mixed-income adj.

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1966 Rev. Econ. Stud. 33 297 The assumption of ‘permanent’ classes of pure-profit and mixed-income receivers with given and unchanging saving propensities on which all of our theorems..depend critically.

1996 Amer. Econ. Rev. 86 591 Alternative policies: local versus state funding of schools..low-income public housing projects versus subsidies to mixed income developments.

mixed-mode adj.

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1971 Appl. Statistics 20 71 Its internal representation may or may not be of the same type as the external representation. When not, the same operations as in mixed-mode assignment take place.

1990 Independent 24 Jan. 23/2 The..plan envisages..‘mixed mode’ operations to allow aircraft to take off or land simultaneously.

mixed-pressure adj.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > turbine > [adjective] > types of

radial-flow1881

axial flow1889

mixed-pressure1909

mixed flow1958

refan1973

1909 Engineering 5 Feb. 198/1 A turbine of what is called a mixed-pressure type, having high-pressure stages, in which the live steam may..keep the turbine running during the periods of insufficient supply of exhaust steam.

1929 T. M. Naylor Steam Turbines i. 9 Mixed pressure turbines use both high-pressure and exhaust or low-pressure steam.

1971 B. Scharf Engin. & its Lang. xv. 209 We may..distinguish between straight condensing turbines, pass-out turbines, back-pressure turbines, exhaust turbines and mixed-pressure turbines.

mixed-sex adj.

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1956 Ecology 37 109/2 In a mixed-sex culture eggs are being added and destroyed constantly.

1995 Daily Tel. 21 Feb. 4/3 When a young policewoman accepts the keys to her room in a mixed-sex hostel, she is entering a male preserve.

mixed-traffic adj.

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1956 Railway Mag. Nov. 729/2 Many Drummond mixed-traffic 4-4-0 tender engines were tried on this route.

1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 444 A racing Mini being loaded into a mixed-traffic, British United Airways, VC 10.

mixed-use adj.

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1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 June 29/1 The Colonnade is an old prototype for the new rage in downtown Toronto—mixed-use developments.

1993 Archit. Rev. Jan. 43/2 New interventions include..the insertion of two mixed-use infill buildings on the north and south sides of the square, to complete and animate the space.

mixed-voice adj.

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1948 Penguin Music Mag. June 49 The best members of these choirs..incorporated in..a secular mixed-voice choir.

C2.

mixed arch n. now rare an arch having three or four centres.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > other types of arch

bowOE

craba1387

cove1511

triumphal arch (arc)a1566

straight arch1663

pointed arch1688

rough arch1693

jack-arch1700

oxi1700

raking arch1711

flat arch1715

scheme-arch1725

counter-arch1726

ox-eye arch1736

surbased dome1763

ogee1800

rising arch1809

sub-arch1811

deaf arch1815

four-centred arch1815

mixed arch1815

Tudor arch1815

camber1823

lancet arch1823

invert1827

platband1828

pier arch1835

ogive1841

scoinson arch1842

segment1845

skew arch1845

drop-arch1848

equilateral arch1848

lancet1848

rear arch1848

straining-arch1848

tierceron1851

shouldered arch1853

archlet1862

segment-arch1887

1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 131 Mixed arches are of three centres.

1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 41 Mixed arches are of three centres, which look nearly like elliptical arches; or of four centres, commonly called the Tudor arch.

mixed bed n. Horticulture a flower bed containing an assortment of plants.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > flower-bed

arbourc1300

knot1502

cutwork1693

flower-border1712

panel1803

flower-court1828

mixed bed1866

flower-bed1873

carpet-bed1883

coffin1912

floral clock1925

1866 R. M. Copeland Country Life 664 The mixed bed demands a mixture of colors and a variety of sizes.

1986 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 22 June 15/1 Shivery grass can be grown among annuals and is a pleasant addition to a mixed bed.

mixed bill n. a varied programme of entertainment, often containing elements of dance, music, and drama; also in extended use.

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1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 July c5 Wednesday's fare was..a selection of music, dance and drama... On these mixed bills, it is easy to watch instrumentalists and become so fascinated by their movement that one forgets to listen.

1986 Time (Electronic ed.) 28 Apr. A mixed bill of celebrities has decided that the coolest thing on the hot restaurant scene is to own your own.

1999 Daily Tel. 26 May 23/7 Hart was equally the hero of Twyla Tharp's The Golden Section on last week's mixed bill.

mixed border n. Horticulture a border containing an assortment of plants, usually including both shrubs and herbaceous plants.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > flower-bed > border

borderc1540

bordure1691

wall-border1707

flower-border1712

box edging1718

platband1725

box edge1767

mixed border1868

herbaceous border1881

1868 D. Thomson Handy Bk. Flower Garden xii. 326 A mixed border of hardy and half-hardy plants..would be effective anywhere.

1903 W. Robinson Alpine Flowers (ed. 3) i. 34 The mixed-border system rightly done enables us to cultivate..many of the more vigorous alpine plants as edgings.

1990 Country Homes Oct. 100 In a mixed border you can have golden weigela and golden philadelphus surrounded by blue Jacob's ladder and nepeta in June.

mixed bunch n. = mixed bag n.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture

hotchpotc1405

hodge-podgec1426

omnigatherum?a1430

mishmashc1475

peasemeala1525

omnium gatherum1530

mingle1548

hotchpotch1549

mingle-mangle1549

gallimaufry1551

rhapsody1574

sauce-medley1579

pell-mellc1586

linsey-woolsey1592

wilderness1594

brewage1599

motley1609

macaronic1611

medley1618

olla podridaa1635

farragoa1637

consarcination1640

porridge1642

olio1645

bisque1653

mélange1653

hash1660

jumble1661

farrage1698

capilotade1705

jargon1710

salmagundi1761

pasticcio1785

pea meal1789

ollapod1804

mixty-maxty1818

macédoine1820

ragbag1820

haggis1822

job lot1828

allsorts1831

conglomerate1837

pot-pourri1841

chow-chow1850

breccia1873

pastiche1873

macaroni1884

mixed bag1919

casserole1930

mixed bunch1958

rattle-bag1982

mulligan1993

1958 F. Leiber in Galaxy Sci. Fiction Mar. 12/2 The Place has sectional gravity to suit our Extraterrestrial buddies - those crazy ETs sometimes come whooping in for recuperation in very mixed bunches.

1993 Cycling Weekly 23 Jan. 22/1 Although the number of women racing has increased, they are a mixed bunch of abilities and in insufficient numbers to warrant category racing.

mixed business n. Australian a shop selling a wide variety of goods, often incorporating a newsagent, delicatessen, etc., and sometimes also a petrol station; a convenience store.

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1903 Sydney Morning Herald 6 Nov. 8/6 Mixed businesses. I have a special selection of genuine concerns suitable for 1 or 2 ladies.

1986 Canberra Times 24 May b16/4 26 km. south of Bateman's Bay, on the beach, mixed business, petrol, groceries, takeaway food.

mixed cadence n. Music a cadence combining features of perfect and plagal cadences (see quots.).

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1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 294/2 Mixed Cadence, an old name for a cadence, consisting of a subdominant followed by a dominant and tonic chord; so called because the characteristic chords of the plagal and authentic cadences succeed each other.

1980 New Grove Dict. Music at Cadence A cadence whose final chord is prepared by subdominant and dominant harmonies..is sometimes called a ‘mixed’ cadence.

mixed-celled adj. Pathology involving or containing cells of more than one kind.

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the world > life > biology > organism > organisms by number or kind of cells > [adjective]

monocellular1854

multicellular1857

unicellular1858

monoplastic1877

unicelled1877

multicelled1884

acellular1886

monoplastid1889

tricellular1891

single-celled1899

mixed-celled1908

microcellular1909

1908 Practitioner Feb. 235 Leucocythaemia..may be qualified by such descriptive titles as mixed-celled leucocythaemia..or lymphocytic leucocythaemia.

1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxv. 369 The cells [of a melanoma of the choroid]..may be cylindrical or palisade-like, arranged in columns or around blood vessels, or even endothelial in appearance; most tumours are mixed-celled.

mixed chalice n. Christian Church the communion cup containing wine with water added to it (chiefly with reference to liturgical controversy over the practice of adding water).

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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > wine > [noun] > mixed with water

ablution1740

mixed chalice1877

1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 244 The course of the Church of England in respect of the Mixed Chalice.

1978 A. Dunstan in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy xiii. 273 Controversy raged between the ‘Usagers’ (those who wanted to return to certain practices claimed as primitive—the mixed chalice, epiclesis, etc.) and the ‘Non-Usagers’.

1998 Church Times 30 Jan. 10/4 Your questioner must be referring to the ‘mixed chalice’, a ritual point opposed by low-church Anglicans during the period 1850–90, but regarded as legal in the Lincoln judgment.

mixed contract n. Civil Law a contract involving the exchange of benefits of unequal value (see quot. 1860).

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1860 J. J. S. Wharton Law-lexicon (ed. 2) Mixed contract, one in which one of the parties confers a benefit on the other, and requires of the latter something of less value than what he has given; as a legacy charged with something of less value than the legacy itself.

1991 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 99 1070 We have not learned of a single instance of such a mixed contract.

† mixed decrement n. Crystallography Obsolete decrement of a crystal face in which the number of molecules supposedly lost in width is different from the number supposedly lost in height, neither number being exactly divisible by the other.

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1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 21 A mixed decrement is one in which unequal numbers of molecules are omitted in height and in breadth, neither of the numbers being a multiple of the other, such as three in height and two in breadth, or four in height and three in breadth.

mixed doubles n. a game of tennis, badminton, etc., in which each side comprises one male and one female player.

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1889 W. M. Brownlee Lawn-Tennis 167 Ladies never play carelessly in Mixed Doubles.

1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 296 In mixed doubles the lady is usually responsible for the net shots.

1992 Bowling Digest Mar. 58/1 The Cambridge mixed doubles is the only national pro tournament that isn't televised.

mixed drink n. originally and chiefly U.S. a drink consisting of a mixture of different beverages, usually of one or more spirits with a non-alcoholic mixer.

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1652 G. Fidge Great Eater Grayes-Inne 18 They plyed him so nimbly with mixed Drinks, that Marriot having but a weake head, was knockt down with drink.

1703 in C. J. Hoadly Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1868) IV. 437 Any person being duely convicted of keeping a tipling house, or selling strong beer, ale, cyder, perry, metheglin, wine, rumm, or mixt drinke.

1853 Sci. Amer. 16 July 346/1 Many people..do themselves great injury by excessive drinking, and not that of alcoholic beverages alone, but mixed drinks of various kinds, beers, soda waters, &c.

1995 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 19 Nov. 7/2 (advt.) They've got a lot to quench any thirst, including a selection of beer, wine, mixed drinks,..and ice tea.

† mixed earth n. Obsolete an earth or soil (such as loam) consisting of a mixture of components.

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1616 R. Surflet & G. Markham Countrie Farme 556 Any mixed earths or hassell-grounds which are clayes and sands or clayes and gravells mixed together.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 370 Earths, resulting from the union of earths, or sands, are called mixed, because the ingredients..may in great measure be mechanically separated.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 371 The only mixed earths, to which peculiar names have been assigned, are loam and mould.

mixed economy n. an economic system containing both private and state enterprise.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system

free market1642

peasant economy1883

agriculturism1885

money economy1888

price system1889

external economy1890

peace economy1905

war economy1919

planned economy1924

market economy1929

circular economy1932

managed economy1932

mixed economy1936

market socialism1939

plural economy1939

market capitalism1949

external diseconomy1952

siege economy1962

knowledge economy1967

linear economy1968

EMU1969

wage economy1971

grey economy1977

EMS1978

enterprise culture1979

new economy1981

tiger1981

share economy1983

gig economy2009

1936 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 30 858 Or is the prelude..to a ‘mixed’ economy operating under a revamped political democracy?

1973 Guardian 1 June 12/2 Neither Lonrho's shareholders nor Labour's fundamentalists provide an argument for abandoning the mixed economy.

1992 New Republic 10 Aug. 25/1 It may be harder because internationalization of commerce makes us more of a market and less of a mixed economy.

mixed ether n. [after French éther mixte (G. Chancel 1850, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 31 522)] Chemistry an ether (ether n. 5c) having the formula R′OR″, where R′ and R″ are dissimilar alkyl groups.

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1850 tr. G. Chancel in Chem. Gaz. 2 Dec. 455 The gas thus obtained was inflammable, very sparingly soluble in water, and possessed a peculiar aetherial odour; it was evidently the mixed æther..OMeEt.

1909 E. I. Lewis Elements Org. Chem. v. 42 Methyl-ethyl ether corresponds to no known alcohol; and since the radicles are unlike, it is called a mixed ether to distinguish it from the simple ethers already described.

2008 P. Warren & S. Wyatt Org. Synthesis (ed. 2) vii. 48 If the reaction worked at all, we should get dimers of each alcohol as well as the mixed ether.

mixed feeding n. (a) the introduction of some solid food into a baby's diet of milk; (b) the provision of both breast milk and artificial milk in a baby's diet.

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1904 L. M. Yale & G. Pollak Mother's Bk. 417 (heading) Evils of early mixed feeding... Should a child from three to five months old be fed at all from the table when there is a sufficiency of mother's milk?

1908 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 71 701 (table) Breast-fed..Bottle-fed..Mixed feeding.

1989 Stud. in Family Planning 20 203/1 Women who fully breastfeed their children do not generally resume menses as early as non-breastfeeding women, or women who practice mixed feeding.

1997 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 24 Oct. At around five months a baby goes on to mixed feeding.

mixed fraction n. Mathematics a number consisting of an integer and a proper fraction; a mixed number.

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the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun] > mixed numbers

mixed number1552

mixed fraction1706

1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 91 To Reduce an Improper Fraction into an Integer, or Mixt Fraction.

1989 J. Daintith & R. D. Nelson Penguin Dict. Math. 217/2 Mixed fraction, a fraction consisting of an integer together with a proper fraction; for example 1½.

mixed greens n. chiefly North American a mixture of green vegetables and herbs, esp. used to make a salad.

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1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 July e1 Sauce Vincent... 1 ½ cups chopped mixed greens, including spinach, parsley, tarragon.., and, as available, watercress.

1996 Decanter June 33/1 A warm salad of mixed greens and chunks of roast duck.

mixed herbs n. (with plural agreement) a mixture of herbs, spec. a commercially prepared mixture of culinary herbs.

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1862 Times 28 Oct. 6/2 3,464 bundles of mixed herbs.

1910 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 11 Feb. 7/3 Four pepper corns, four cloves and one teaspoonful mixed herbs are the proper flavoring for one quart of water for soups.

1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 May 51 With all the fresh herbs coming up pungent and delicious, make herb butter. It's easy. Just pick a handful of mixed herbs—I've used combinations of tarragon, sage, oregano, basil, thyme and dill—chop them fairly fine, and work into creamed butter.

2001 Cape Times 25 May ii. 16/4 Add a small packet of frozen peas, 2 cups dry red wine, 1 diced, peeled tomato, a goodly sprinkling of mixed herbs, salt and freshly-ground black pepper.

mixed income n. an income derived partly from earnings and partly from other sources.

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1927 A. L. Bowley & J. C. Stamp National Income 1924 17 In practice this gives an intermediate figure as the exemption limit for a ‘mixed income’.

mixed land n. U.S. (now rare) land on which a variety of trees, esp. oak and hickory, grow together.

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1741 in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1840) I. 158 Oak and Hickory, or Mixt Land.

1851 J. F. W. Johnston Notes N. Amer. 258 A wider, and perhaps a still more beautiful view of mixed land and water, high-land, forest, and cultivated fields.

1874 D. Eagan 6th Ann. Rep. Commissioner Lands State Florida 147 There are large districts of what are termed mixed lands, from the fact that red oak, hickory, gum and pine all grow together.

mixed-manned adj. (of a military force) comprising people of more than one nationality.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > [adjective] > other types

Pentomic1956

mixed-manned1963

1963 Economist 16 Mar. 980/3 The mixed-manned, mixed-money nuclear force that Mr Merchant is..trying to create.

1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 28 On June 4 Admiral C. V. Ricketts..arrived in London to sell the mixed-manned fleet to a reluctant Mr Thorneycroft.

mixed manning n. the operation of a ship, etc., by a crew of more than one nationality.

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1963 Times 11 June 13/6 I fail to understand the fuss about mixed manning for the proposed Nato nuclear surface fleet.

1968 Internat. Organization 22 834 Mixed manning in Colorado does not mean that strategy is jointly contrived.

mixed martial arts n. a full-contact combat sport or fitness training method involving fighting techniques drawn from boxing, wrestling, and various martial arts; abbreviated MMA (see MMA n. at M n. Initialisms 1).

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1993 Los Angeles Times 15 Nov. In..Brazil, where mixed-martial arts championships like this one are commonplace.

1996 R. W. Murray IFOR on IFOR i. 71 We were specially trained in martial arts, mixed martial arts, unarmed defence, and to kill in silence if we need to.

2008 J. Ferruggia Fit to Fight 3 Today we have mixed martial arts—where every successful competitor trains his punching, kicking, takedowns, groundwork, and submission holds on a regular basis.

mixed message n. a message which conveys contradictory or inconsistent information, often unintentionally; (in plural) messages which (apparently) contradict each other (cf. mixed signals n.).

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1883 Funny Folks 24 Nov. 371/1 It [sc. the electro-automatic evangelist] commenced to pour forth in the tones of a steam hooter, which penetrated to every corner of the tent, its somewhat mixed message.

1896 S. A. Underwood Automatic or Spirit Writing vi. 115 Mr. U. had been speaking of the frequent mixed messages, contradictions and occasional falsehoods in the earlier phases of his writing.

1975 L. A. Cove & R. S. Lourie in S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry (ed. 2) V. 776 Their [sc. a child's natural parents] intermittent appearances and mixed messages are probably the most potent barriers to the children's being able to..resolve relationship conflicts.

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Oct. c12/1 Sales flagged and experts blamed the mixed message.

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mixed mode n. Philosophy see mode n. 6b.

mixed money n. now historical coinage made from alloy; also in plural in same sense.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > coin of mixed metal

mixed money1602

1602 in J. Simon Irish Coins (1749) 104 Three score pounds in mixt monies of the new standerd of this realme.

1615 J. Davies Le Primer Report des Cases en Ireland f. 18 La Roigne Elizabeth, pur payer les gages del Army..que fuit mainteine..a suppresser le rebellion de Tyrone, causast vn graund quantity de Mixt Moneyes..destre coine in le Tower de London.

1943 Polit. Sci. Q. 58 89 This device..was thoroughly discussed by the English Privy Council in the famous Mixed Money Case of 1603.

1979 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 39 349 Out of 36 documents..30 give a rate ranging from 2.5 bezants..to 2.593 bezants per pound of mixed money of Marseilles.

mixed motion n. now historical and rare motion with a rectilinear and a circular component.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in curve > curved trajectory

mixed motion1669

mixed range1669

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 68 (Plate) The mixt or Crooked Motion.

1969 Stud. in Renaissance 16 93 ‘Mixed motion’ (i.e. a compound motion, made up of both rectilinear and circular motion).

mixed nerve n. Anatomy a nerve which contains both sensory and motor nerve fibres.

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the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [noun]

sensitive?a1425

motivec1475

life stringc1522

recurrent1615

life corda1631

abducent1681

cord1774

chord1783

motor1824

afferent1828

excitor1836

nerve trunk1850

mixed nerve1861

inhibitory nerve1870

nervelet1875

vaso-motor1887

pilomotor1892

lemniscus1913

1861 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 647 The determination of several definite points in sentient and mixed nerves, often the seats of neuralgic pain.

1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. i. 390 All the spinal nerves are mixed nerves, composed of afferent and efferent, of motor and sensory fibres.

1977 Brain Res. 136 32 All the studies were made on the 16th spinal (mixed) nerve.

mixed nuts n. a mixture of several varieties of nuts.

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1876 Chicago Tribune 17 Dec. 5/7 (advt.) Mixed nuts, per lb..14c.

2004 Nature 27 May 352/2 In a container of mixed nuts, the brazil nuts always seem to rise to the top.

mixed pickles n. vegetables of several kinds pickled together.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > pickles or chutney

achar1598

conditurea1682

pickle1693

chutney1813

mixed pickles1857

1857 J. H. Walsh Man. Domest. Econ. 407 For Mixed Pickles, prepare [etc.].

1952 New Orleans Item 28 Feb. 17/5 'Way back yonder when a poorboy sandwich was just that—namely, a five-cent filling of bread, meat and mixed pickles for a poor boy.

mixed programme n. chiefly North American = mixed bill n.

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1926 Radio Broadcast Feb. 447 in Concept of Mass Audience in Amer. Broadcasting (1979) 79 The mixed program is doubtless the program director's honest effort to reach and entertain the maximum number of people of widely varying tastes.

1995 Toronto Star 3 Apr. a2 We think a deal on enforcement will be a mixed program with more observers and inspectors than satellites in the beginning.

† mixed proportion n. Mathematics Obsolete the proportion of the sum of the terms of a given ratio to their difference.

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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Mixt Reason, or Proportion.

† mixed range n. Obsolete rare = mixed motion n.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in curve > curved trajectory

mixed motion1669

mixed range1669

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 75 Every Shot made upon the Level hath the mixt or Crooked-Range thereof.

† mixed ratio n. Mathematics Obsolete = mixed proportion n.

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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Mixt Ratio, or Proportion.

mixed reality n. a medium consisting of immersive computer generated environments in which elements of a physical and virtual environment are combined.Mixed reality is sometimes taken to exclude augmented reality and to refer solely to environments in which virtual elements can interact with physical ones.

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1994 P. Milgram & F. Kishino in IEICE Trans. Information & Syst. 77 1321/2 In this paper we focus on a particular subclass of VR related technologies that involve the merging of real and virtual worlds, which we refer to generically as Mixed Reality.

2019 S. Greengard Virtual Reality vii. 190 Virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality will certainly not replace physical reality, but these technologies will introduce an overlay that sometimes displaces and often extends the ‘real’ world.

† mixed reason n. Mathematics Obsolete = mixed proportion n.

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1695 W. Alingham Geom. Epitomiz'd 19 Mixt Reason, is the comparing the sum of the Antecedent and Consequent, to the difference of the Antecedent and Consequent.

mixed school n. a school in which girls and boys, or (later also) children from different communities, are taught together.

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1826 D. Ramsay (title) Delineation of a mixed school in regard to its influence in promoting a Christian education.

1863 P. W. Joyce School Managem. 47 A mixed school, in which the girls do not learn needlework, is, so far as the time-table is concerned, the same as a boys' school.

1922 ‘R. Crompton’ More William (1924) viii. 125 William attended a mixed school because his parents hoped that feminine influence might have a mellowing effect upon his character.

1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 31 May 2/5 Twenty-eight boards of education have 31,427 secondary students enrolled in 59 French-language or mixed schools.

1999 Sunday Mirror (Electronic ed.) 5 May Both of them were baptised at home with a Methodist minister and a Catholic priest in attendance. They go to a mixed school.

mixed signals n. signals which (apparently) contradict each other (cf. mixed message n.).

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1905 Washington Post 13 July 8/3 The play showed the lack of team work and mixed signals again.

1966 Eng. Jrnl. 55 913/2 I know more than one school teacher or English professor..who has finally rebelled at the delays, the mixed signals, the red tape that are often encountered before a proposal is finally approved.

2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) viii. 181 For juries who believe..the woman [sc. a rape victim] may have given mixed signals by her own behaviour, the judge's direction is a let-out.

mixed spice n. a mixture of ground spices prepared for cooking, typically including cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

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1869 A. S. Wright Wright's Bk. 3000 Pract. Receipts 189 Common Gingerbread. Treacle, 3 pounds; seconds flour, 4 pounds;..ginger, 2 ounces; mixed spice, 2 ounces.

1997 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Apr. 33/3 Beat the ricotta cheese in a bowl with the vanilla essence and mixed spice.

mixed technique n. a painting technique in which tempera and oil-resin paints are combined or overlaid.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > oil medium with distemper

mixed technique1935

mixed media1945

1935 E. Neuhaus tr. M. Doerner Materials of Artist v. 240 Painting with tempera into wet resin-oil color (mixed technique). This technique is better suited to a deliberate, stylistic type of painting.

1969 R. Mayer Dict. Art Terms & Techniques 246/1 Mixed technique, in painting, the technique of combining tempera colors with paints of an oleoresinous medium... Mixed technique first became known in the U.S. and Britain in 1934.

mixed tone n. Music rare the peregrine tone (one of the Gregorian tones).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > chanted > plainchant > tone > specific tone

peregrine tone1609

mixed tone1844

1844 W. B. Heathcote Canticles ii A ninth [tone] is generally added..called ‘Mixed’.

mixed train n. a train formed of both passenger carriages and goods wagons; (formerly also) a train consisting of carriages of different classes.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > carrying different classes or passengers and goods

mixed train1838

mixed1934

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 115/1 The mixed train which leaves Birmingham at half-past four.

1839 Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables 25 Oct. The Mixed Trains consist of First Class Carriages carrying six inside, and of 2d class carriages open at the side.

1850 D. Lardner Railway Econ. 481 Mixed trains, by which goods and passengers are indifferently carried.

1972 J. Minifie Homesteader xvii. 145 The thrice-weekly mixed train..was snorting to itself, prior to undertaking the return trip.

mixed veld n. South African Agriculture pasture consisting of a mixture of vegetation, such as grass and scrub, or sweetveld and sourveld.

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1880 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (ed. 3) 155 No one can be long at the Cape, if he takes an interest in farms, without hearing of Sweet Veldt and Sour Veldt and Mixed Veldt.

1910 A. B. Lamont Rural Reader 252 Mixed veld is a mixture of grass and bushes.

1992 F. P. Van Oudtshoorn Guide to Grasses 39 Mixed veld represents an intermediate form between sweetveld and sourveld.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mixed
释义	mixedn. Brit. /mɪkst/, U.S. /mɪkst/, Australian English /mɪkst/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: mixed train n. at mixed adj.² Compounds 2 Etymology: Shortened < mixed train n. at mixed adj.² Compounds 2. Chiefly Australian. = mixed train n. at mixed adj.² Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > carrying different classes or passengers and goods mixed train1838 mixed1934 1934 T. Wood Cobbers 192 Goods trains and sheep trains and cattle trains run..but they do not concern the passenger. He has to rely on the Mail and the Mixed. 1969 B. Twilly in P. A. Smith Folklore Austral. Railwaymen 39 My longest trip with the ‘mixed’ from Alice Springs took me two weeks. It was January 1938. This ‘mixed’ ran alternate weeks to the Ghan. 1987 Railway World Nov. 679/2 The spotless locomotives from here also work down to the Indian Ocean at Port Alfred, where anyone riding or photographing the morning ‘mixed’ has ample time for a refreshing swim..before returning. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mixedadj.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mix n.¹, -ed suffix². Etymology: < mix n.¹ + -ed suffix². Obsolete. rare. Foul, polluted. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] mixedc1300 pollutea1382 infectc1384 unpurea1398 fouledc1400 drossyc1420 polluteda1425 defouledc1440 dreggyc1440 feculent1471 filed1483 violate?c1500 feding1502 fly-blown1528 cankered1530 defiled1530 contagious1547 dregful1552 contaminatea1555 menstruous1560 dreggish1561 conspurcate1563 empoisoned1581 inquinated?1593 pollutionate1593 fly-bitten1598 impure1598 druggy1599 contaminated1609 transboundary1918 c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2533 (MED) Þat fule traytour, that mixed cherl! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2021). mixedadj.² Brit. /mɪkst/, U.S. /mɪkst/, Australian English /mɪkst/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s mixte, late Middle English–1500s myxt, late Middle English–1500s myxte, late Middle English– mixt (now archaic and nonstandard), 1500s mixid, 1500s myxed, 1500s myxyd, 1500s– mixed; Scottish pre-1700 mixit, pre-1700 myxit, pre-1700 myxt, pre-1700 1700s–1800s mixt, pre-1700 1700s– mixed, 1800s mixéd (poetic). Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mixt, miste; Latin mixtus, miscēre. Etymology: Originally < Anglo-Norman mixt, mixte mixed, specifically used of mixed blood (early 12th cent. in a legal context), of the nature of both a real and a personal action (c1290: see sense 2a) and Middle French miste, mixte mixed, consisting of different elements or qualities (12th cent. in Old French) and their etymon classical Latin mixtus partaking of two or more kinds, composite, mixed, varied, mixed with water, diluted, specific use of past participle of miscēre to mix (see mix v.; with sense 2a compare also post-classical Latin actio mixta (1362 in a British source)). In later use apprehended as < mix v. + -ed suffix¹.The word has the appearance of an English past participle or participial adjective in -t , which would regularly have an alternative form in -ed (compare blest , blessed (see bless v.¹), vext , vexed : see vex v.)), and thus the forms in -ed , -id , -yd came into use very early (compare -ed suffix¹); compare later mix v. and mixt v. The spelling mixt in the 17th cent. is probably in most instances merely phonetic, but may sometimes indicate that the word was still apprehended as an adoption of Latin mixtus rather than as the participle of an English verb. In the 19th cent. the spelling mixt sometimes occurs in historical use with a legal sense (see e.g. quot. 1818 at sense 2a), but is otherwise subsequently used only by writers who advocate spelling reform or in poetical use. Classical Latin miscēre is from a suffixed form (also seen in Early Irish mesc mixed, mescaim to mix (Irish measc, Scottish Gaelic measg to mix); compare Welsh mysgu to mix) of the Indo-European base represented by Sanskrit miśra (adjective) mixed, together with, Avestan mišti (adverb) together, with one another, Old Church Slavonic měsiti to mix, Russian mesit′ to knead, Lithuanian mišrus mixed, compound, hybrid, mišti to become mixed, maišyti to stir, mix. A parallel base with voiced rather than voiceless stop is represented by the ancient Greek aorist μιγῆναι (the present μιγνύναι is secondary), with a corresponding extended form seen in μίσγειν. The relationship of the classical Latin past participle form mixtus to this base and to the phonologically regular classical Latin past participle form mistus is unclear. The meaning of Vedic Sanskrit mikṣ-, sometimes adduced as a parallel, is uncertain. 1. Consisting of different or dissimilar elements or qualities; not of one kind, not pure or simple; composite. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [adjective] compoundc1400 jointc1400 pieced1419 mixed?a1425 complexionatec1430 partyc1500 concrete1536 compost?1541 united1567 composed1570 compounded1570 integral1588 compositive1601 integrate1601 complicate1638 complexa1652 complicated1667 composite1678 co-unala1711 conglomerate1835 polylithic1961 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 90^v To drie þe pacient particule bi farmaciez of myxte vertue, viz of repercussyng & of diaforetyng. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 920 Myxed lyght is devyded in four partes. 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. G.iiii A foote of two sillables, is eyther simple or mixt, that is, of like time or of diuers. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 123 Mixt conditions are those which are partlie arbitrarie and partlie casuall. 1636 C. Butler Princ. Musik ii. i. 93 Musik is divided into Vocal, Instrumental, and Mixt. 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith iv. 25 David was punished according to the rule of that mixed and fatherly justice, which keeps a due proportion between the sin, and the punishment. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 62. ¶6 Mixt Wit therefore is a Composition of Punn and true Wit. 1742 C. Cibber Let. to Pope 34 What a merry mixt Mortal has Nature made you? 1790 Monthly Rev. 3 485 The mixed atomists, who ascribe the power of thinking to some inherent power in matter. 1818 M. Edgeworth Let. 13 Oct. (1971) 114 There were mixed motives I grant... Lord Byron was distressed for money. To be sure he could have had other fortunes but then there was vanity. 1849 J. C. Hare Serm. Preacht Herstmonceux Church II. 469 Man is a mixt being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xix. 294 In such a mixed humour, I made up what it pleases me to call my mind. 1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. iii. 18 None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. 1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) x. 162 Involvement of peritonsillar tissues with abscess formation..probably results most often from a mixed infection. 1994 H. Burton Leonard Bernstein v. xxxiv. 394 He asked me for a ‘mixed’ voice... It was difficult to find something half way between full voice and falsetto. 2. a. Law. Of an action or plea: of the nature of both a real and a personal action (personal adj. 6a); involving a claim for both restitution and damages. Now historical.With the abolition of real actions (see personal adj. 7a), mixed actions necessarily came to an end. ΚΠ 1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 139 Any action real personall and myxte apon any person or persons. 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 26 §4 Al actions personals..and al actions mixte..shall be sued by originall writte. c1610 F. Bacon Case of Post-nati Scotl. (1641) 12 But for free-hold, or lease, or actions reall, or mixt: he is not inabled, except [etc.]. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 228 This action of waste is a mixed action; partly real, so far as it recovers land, and partly personal, so far as it recovers damages. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 532 In pleas real or mixt. 1888 T. C. Williams in Law Q. Rev. 4 398 Mixed actions partook of the nature both of real and personal actions. 1928 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 22 312 For the exercise of real actions in respect of real property, and for that of mixed actions to determine boundary and partition of common property. b. gen. Mingled or blended together; assorted; formed by the mingling or combining of different substances, articles, individuals, etc.In quot. 1482 applied spec. to adulterated wine. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] mingedc1275 meddleda1387 melleda1393 blenda1400 entremedly?a1425 yblent1426 commixed?1440 mingleda1475 medleyed1480 mixed1482 intermista1552 intermixed1555 confuse1563 intermingled1586 confused1594 intermeddled1595 blended1621 throughother1626 commingled1648 miscellaneous1698 confluentiala1711 confluent1814 intermixing1815 immixed1855 blent1872 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > prepared by mixing compoundc1400 confectedc1550 compounded1600 mixed1611 1482 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 144 Corrupt or mixt wyne. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. Q iv b Thou hedlong threwst thyself on myxyd heapes of enmyes slain. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxiii. 30 They that tarry long at the wine, they that goe to seeke mixt wine. View more context for this quotation 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders sig. g4 A Building, either made of stone, brick, or mixt. 1682 London Gaz. No. 1685/4 A mix'd Stuff Suit, and clouded Stockings. 1717 D. Defoe Mem. Church of Scotl. iii. 174 The Word is said to be taken from a mixt Drink the poor Men drank in their Wanderings compos'd of Water and sour Milk. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 20 With mixt Manure she surfeits the rank Soil. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick p. xviii Abstain from all Mixt, all high-season'd Food. 1846 W. B. Scott Year of World iii. iv. 63 She hath tasted, and she must abide What change the mixéd potion shall perform. 1861 F. W. Robinson No Church II. 238 A plate of mixed biscuits. 1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ iv. 83 Captain Allistoun..stood composed in the tumult, listening with profound attention to mixed growls and screeches. 1938 Amer. Home Jan. 14/2 Then, as a mixed hedgerow, against what would soon be a mass of the greens of honeysuckle and bittersweet, we set different species of both shrubby viburnums and dogwoods. 1991 S. Seddon Travel (BNC) 80 The plane left London..with a mixed cargo of clotted cream, grouse, newspapers, a quantity of leather and some passengers. 3. a. Of a substance: composed of different elements; compound. Esp. in mixed body. Cf. mixt n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > substance consisting of mixed elements mixtion1481 mixed bodya1500 mixture1604 compounda1616 mixt1644 mixtum1656 a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1891 (MED) Remembre how in euery mixte thinge, Euermore oon element desirith to be kinge. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 60^v The sea in this treatise, hath place as a mixed substaunce, for els the element of waters being simple, were not here to be spoken of. 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xiii. 145 As if light were a qualitie resulting of an elementarie composition, it beeing created before all mixed bodies. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 63 Mixt bodies are twofold, imperfectand perfect. 1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist ii. 212 Multitudes of these fiery Corpuscles, getting in at the Pores of the Glass, may associate themselves with the parts of the mixt Body, whereon they work, and with them Constitute new Kinds of Compound Bodies. 1682 R. Boyle Noctiluca 137 The Atoms of the Fire, may every whit as reasonably be supposed, to Associate themselves variously with the Corpuscles of a Mixt Body. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 56 Glass appears to be the true elementary earth, and all mixed bodies are only glass in disguise. 1994 W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire i. 28 For Mitchell, mixed bodies are made up of clearly defined particles of terminally small size: for Aristotle they are probably not. b. Of a government or system of government: combining features of two or more recognized types, as monarchy, democracy, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > other systems > [adjective] > combining features of different systems mixeda1538 a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 120 For thys cause the most wyse men..affyrme a myxte state to be of al other the best, & most convenyent to conserve the hole out of tyranny. 1650 T. Hobbes De Corpore Politico 72 This Policy they call Mixt Monarchy, or Mixt Aristocracy, or mixt Democracy, according as any of these three sorts do most visibly predominate. 1772 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (new ed.) I. ii. 12 Unbounded liberty of the press..is one of the evils, attending those mixt forms of government. 1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. iii. 29 The British Constitution, the most perfect example of Mixed Government. 1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) i. 12 The ancient republic of Sparta was a Mixed Aristocracy. 1869 J. S. Mill Subject. Women i. 7 The government of women over men,..and such mixed..modes of government as might be invented. 1970 H. Arendt On Violence 72 A new system, which he [sc. Pareto] called ‘Pluto-democracy’—a mixed form of government, plutocracy being the bourgeois regime and democracy the regime of the workers. c. Mathematics. = mixtilinear adj. Formerly also (occasionally): †(of a surface) partly plane and partly curved (obsolete). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > polygonal > bounded by curved and straight lines mixed1551 mixtilinear1702 mixtilineal1833 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Defin. And if it be partlie plaine, and partlie crooked, then is it called a Myxte platte. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 2^v A mixt angle is that which is caused..of a right line and a crooked. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. f. 128 Of plaine Angles,..some are said to be mixt, because the one line is crooked and the other right. 1702 J. Raphson Math. Dict. at Angle Angle mixed or mixtilinear. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Figures Mixt, are such as are bounded partly by right Lines, and partly by crooked ones, as a Semicircle. 1957 Encycl. Brit. I. 928/2 The angle..is measured by the angle formed by tangents to the curves at their common point; it may also be formed by a curve and a straight line (mixed angle). 4. a. Combining different racial or ethnic elements; combining elements from different communities or cultures. ΚΠ c1600 W. Fowler tr. N. Machiavelli Prince in Wks. (1936) II. 102 Off assisting suddarts mixtes and of these that ar..duelling within the prencis dominioun. 1700 E. Littleton et al. Let. 16 Nov. in W. Hedges Diary (1888) II. p. ccix It's alsoe of very ill consequence that your Covenant Servants should intermarry with any of the people of the Country or those of mixed Race or Mustechees. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World iii. 96 A mixed breed of Creolian Spaniards. 1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 63 The Romans, Saxons, Normans, and the Danes,..A mixed race, sprung partly from them all, Holds now the pow'r. 1826 J. Malcolm Polit. Hist. India 1784–1823 II. xi. 248 The mixed population of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, made up of European Half Castes, or Anglo-Indians. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. iv. 164 A person of mixed European and Indian descent. 1894 A. C. Haddon Decorative Art Brit. New Guinea 184 Following Dr E. T. Hamy, I adopt the term Massims as a collective name for the mixed people inhabiting the archipelagoes off the south-east of New Guinea. 1932 J. Carey Aissa Saved iv. 24 The new town on the waterside, inhabited by Hansas, Nupes, Yorubas, the mixed population of a harbour. 1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. ii. 11 My father was..a Swiss citizen, of mixed French and Austrian descent. 1994 i-D Oct. 117/1 The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers..are a team of racially mixed American suburban teens who [etc.]. 2000 C. Holdsclaw & J. Frey Chamique vi. 78 My uncle Thurman's wife is Native American and the kids are mixed, and my cousin Elon is married to a Filipino woman, and their kids are mixed. b. Comprising or containing people from different backgrounds or of different social status; not restricted to people of one class, etc.Sometimes (as in quot. 1818) with overtones of disapproval. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [adjective] > miscellaneous (of company) mixed1611 promiscuous1753 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [adjective] > including those who are mixed1611 promiscuous1753 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xii. 38 And a mixed multitude went vp also with them. View more context for this quotation 1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee 199 You cannot away with mixt communions. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels II. 249 This Parable was spoken before a mixt and numerous Auditory. 1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) No. 5. 42 A free Manner of Speaking in mixt Company. 1797 Lady H. Newdigate Let. 26 July in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) xiv. 196 Y^e Scene was..very like Vauxhall, only without Trees; y^e Company still more mixt. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lv. 29 The company is ‘mix'd’ (the phrase I quote is, As much as saying, they're below your notice). 1820 W. Hazlitt in London Mag. Sept. 253 The conversation of authors..is better than any other. That of mixed company becomes utterly intolerable. 1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans 305 As far as my social experience goes (and I have kept very mixed company) there is no class in English society in which a good deal of Drinkwater pronunciation does not pass unchallenged save by the expert phonetician. 1902 T. M. Lindsay Church & Ministry in Early Centuries ii. 49 The population of Corinth was as mixed as that of Alexandria. 1961 Guardian 20 Sept. 6/6 ‘They are a pretty mixed bunch,’ said Lady Delacombe. One runs a night club, another is a fortune-teller. 1992 D. Morgan Rising in West ii. iv. 65 The whites that moved into the Greater South beyond the Mississippi were a mixed group of former cotton farmers,..and farm laborers. c. For, involving, or comprising both sexes. See also mixed school n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > suitable for either sex or gender mixed1644 bisexous1646 cock and hen1785 ambosexual1788 transsexual1907 heterosexual1912 unisexual1932 bi-gendered1961 gender-neutral1963 unisex1966 pangender1978 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 Who shall regulat all the mixt conversation of our youth, male and female together, as is the fashion of this Country? 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 768 Nor in Court Amours Mixt Dance, or wanton Mask, or Midnight Bal. View more context for this quotation 1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Mar. (1932) (modernized text) III. 892 The mixed companies of men and women of fashion..unbend and refresh the mind. 1816 J. Austen Emma II. xvii. 329 Walk half-a-mile to another man's house, for the sake of being in mixed company till bed-time. View more context for this quotation 1873 Overland Monthly Jan. 99 All of which have been reharmonized for mixed voices. 1899 Daily News 2 Aug. 6/6 He was, he said, a convert to the mixed system in education. 1937 R. Kipling Something of Myself ii. 86 I left him in charge of a ‘mixed’ College in New Zealand. 1973 A. Broinowski Take One Ambassador ix. 131 Nance Donnelly..objected..to jokes about sex in mixed company. It was alright, a bit of dirt between men... But not with ladies present. 1990 D. Johnson Health & Happiness (1991) xxxix. 154 Two youngish couples—one male, one mixed—introduced themselves as they waited for someone to answer the door. 1992 D. Morgan Rising in West ii. vii. 128 His church forbade drinking, smoking, and gambling and frowned on dancing,..mixed bathing, [etc.] and the cutting or permanent waving of women's hair. 5. Of a science: involving or dealing with matter; not pure or simply theoretical; applied. Now historical. mixed mathematics n. applied mathematics. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [adjective] > kinds of philosophical?a1513 mixed1605 pure1605 occulta1652 applied1832 statistical1885 marine scientific1937 soft1966 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh3 The mathematicks are either pvre, or mixt:..Mixt hath for subiect some Axiomes or parts of Naturall Philosop[h] ie. View more context for this quotation 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. ii. 12 Mathematicks..is usually divided into pure and mixed. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mixt Mathematicks, are those Arts and Sciences which treat of the Properties of Quantity, apply'd to material Beings, or sensible Objects; as Astronomy, Geography, Navigation, Dialling, Surveying, Gauging, &c. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Gen. Introd. or Treat. on Method 38 in Encycl. Metrop. I We call those [sciences] mixed in which certain ideas of the mind, are applied to the general properties of bodies. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 2 The finest model of an automatic manufacture of mixed chemistry is the five-coloured calico machine. 1874 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 37 114 The mere enumeration of his contributions to pure and mixed mathematics would occupy a very large space. 1926 H. Bagchi Course Math. Anal. p. i Other casual references to Mixed Mathematics, made in the concluding chapter, will, it is hoped, justify their introduction. 1973 Nature 13 Apr. 482/1 Mathematics were indeed cultivated, but it seems to have been the ‘mixed’ or applied branch rather than higher mathematics. 6. Medicine. a. Characterized by the symptoms or signs of two or more different diseases. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [adjective] > presenting symptoms of two diseases mixed1612 1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke 14 A mixt and diuers coloured iaundies. 1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 275 The assemblage of symptoms will generally be of a mixt nature. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Mixed Fever,..a fever having a mixture of the symptoms of an inflammatory and a typhus fever, being a combination of Synocha and Typhus. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 445 Where the case is marked by a moderate amount of œdema, and a moderate amount of paralysis, it is sometimes called mixed beriberi. 1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) vi. 59 At C, D and E the vertical meridian will be in the condition of a myopic, and the horizontal still in that of a hypermetropic eye; this is called mixed astigmatism. b. Of a tumour: involving or apparently composed of more than one type of cell or tissue; spec. designating an adenoma or carcinoma of a salivary gland that has areas of stroma resembling connective tissue. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [adjective] > tumour > other tumours sublated1647 polypous1684 polypose1722 extravasate1728 flatulent1730 primary1793 mammary1804 osteosarcomatous1825 polypoid1827 carcinoid1830 homoeomorphous1832 melanoid1839 polypiform1846 tyromatous1848 non-malignant1852 extravasated1853 adenomatous1863 histioid1864 histoid1865 myxomatous1872 small-cell1872 lymphadenomatous1873 polypoidal1873 lymphomatous1876 myomatous1876 lympho-sarcomatous1880 haematomatous1886 fibro-lipomatous1889 teratomatous1891 mixed1892 fibro-adenomatous1894 psammomatous1897 tunnelled1898 mycosic1899 radioresistant1922 melanomatous1943 sarcoid-like1943 paragangliomatous1965 oncofetal1972 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mixed Mixed nævus, one in which the true skin and the subcutaneous connective tissue are both involved. 1903 Jrnl. Obstet. & Gynæcol. July 54 Either at once (congenital tumours) or after an interval (mixed tumours of later life) this developes into an imperfect organism—a teratoma or embryoma. 1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. xiii. 307 Embryonal and mixed tumors are most frequently mixed salivary gland tumors, Wilm's tumor of the kidney, and testicular and teratomatous tumors. 1993 Sci. News 25 Sept. 207/1 Compared with the 56 women who did not take tamoxifen, the 15 who did were..almost twice as likely to develop mixed mullerian tumors. 7. Made up of good and bad, or positive and negative elements; having both good and bad qualities; equivocal.In later use often with negative connotations, as being by implication less satisfactory than a purely good or positive feeling, review, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > of mixed composition or character > specific good and bad mixed1745 1745 J. Wesley Answer to Rev. Church 11 I have described them, as of a Mixt Character, with much Evil among them, but more Good. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 13 This gentleman, who is of a mixed reputation. 1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 ii. 50 The life, character, transactions, and writings of that mixed man [sc. Voltaire]. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 343 Every circumstance that relates to this prince appears of a mixed and doubtful nature. 1801 C. B. Brockden Clara Howard 194 I had not time to subdue those trembling and mixed feelings which the sight of her produced. 1816 J. Austen Emma II. viii. 163 With mixed feelings, she seated herself at a little distance from the numbers round the instrument, to listen. View more context for this quotation 1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel I. xx As regards the older boys it is a monastery, and the results are about as mixed as in the monastery of old times. 1886 Polit. Sci. Q. 1 136 We cannot turn from the contemplation of the Berlin Conference without mixed feelings. 1958 Listener 18 Sept. 408/2 President Eisenhower's nation-wide broadcast speech..had a mixed reception in America itself. 1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. ii. 1/4 Early reviews were mixed, somewhat on the negative side. †8. colloquial. Mentally confused, muddled; spec. (chiefly Scottish) somewhat befuddled with drink. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk fordrunkenc897 drunkena1050 cup-shottenc1330 drunka1400 inebriate1497 overseenc1500 liquor1509 fou1535 nase?1536 full1554 intoxicate1554 tippled1564 intoxicated1576 pepst1577 overflown1579 whip-cat1582 pottical1586 cup-shota1593 fox-drunk1592 lion-drunk1592 nappy1592 sack-sopped1593 in drink1598 disguiseda1600 drink-drowned1600 daggeda1605 pot-shotten1604 tap-shackled1604 high1607 bumpsy1611 foxed1611 in one's cups1611 liquored1611 love-pot1611 pot-sick1611 whift1611 owl-eyed1613 fapa1616 hota1616 inebriated1615 reeling ripea1616 in one's (or the) pots1618 scratched1622 high-flown?1624 pot-shot1627 temulentive1628 ebrious1629 temulent1629 jug-bitten1630 pot-shaken1630 toxed1635 bene-bowsiea1637 swilled1637 paid1638 soaken1651 temulentious1652 flagonal1653 fuddled1656 cut1673 nazzy1673 concerned1678 whittled1694 suckey1699 well-oiled1701 tippeda1708 tow-row1709 wet1709 swash1711 strut1718 cocked1737 cockeyed1737 jagged1737 moon-eyed1737 rocky1737 soaked1737 soft1737 stewed1737 stiff1737 muckibus1756 groggy1770 muzzeda1788 muzzya1795 slewed1801 lumpy1810 lushy1811 pissed1812 blue1813 lush1819 malty1819 sprung1821 three sheets in the wind1821 obfuscated1822 moppy1823 ripe1823 mixed1825 queer1826 rosined1828 shot in the neck1830 tight1830 rummy1834 inebrious1837 mizzled1840 obflisticated1840 grogged1842 pickled1842 swizzled1843 hit under the wing1844 obfusticatedc1844 ebriate1847 pixilated1848 boozed1850 ploughed1853 squiffy?1855 buffy1858 elephant trunk1859 scammered1859 gassed1863 fly-blown1864 rotten1864 shot1864 ebriose1871 shicker1872 parlatic1877 miraculous1879 under the influence1879 ginned1881 shickered1883 boiled1886 mosy1887 to be loaded for bear(s)1888 squiffeda1890 loaded1890 oversparred1890 sozzled1892 tanked1893 orey-eyed1895 up the (also a) pole1897 woozy1897 toxic1899 polluted1900 lit-up1902 on (also upon) one's ear1903 pie-eyed1903 pifflicated1905 piped1906 spiflicated1906 jingled1908 skimished1908 tin hat1909 canned1910 pipped1911 lit1912 peloothered1914 molo1916 shick1916 zigzag1916 blotto1917 oiled-up1918 stung1919 stunned1919 bottled1922 potted1922 rotto1922 puggled1923 puggle1925 fried1926 crocked1927 fluthered1927 lubricated1927 whiffled1927 liquefied1928 steamed1929 mirackc1930 overshot1931 swacked1932 looped1934 stocious1937 whistled1938 sauced1939 mashed1942 plonked1943 stone1945 juiced1946 buzzed1952 jazzed1955 schnockered1955 honkers1957 skunked1958 bombed1959 zonked1959 bevvied1960 mokus1960 snockered1961 plotzed1962 over the limit1966 the worse for wear1966 wasted1968 wired1970 zoned1971 blasted1972 Brahms and Liszt?1972 funked up1976 trousered1977 motherless1980 tired and emotional1981 ratted1982 rat-arsed1984 wazzed1990 mullered1993 twatted1993 bollocksed1994 lashed1996 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [adjective] redelessOE mopishc1300 tottedc1500 addle1534 muddy?1571 addle1576 foggya1591 foggy-brained1594 addled1599 addle-headed1600 bezzled1604 addle-pated1614 addle-brained1619 buzzle-headeda1644 puzzle-headed1729 puzzle-pated1736 muddle-headed1760 ramble-headeda1761 hulver-headed1785 ramfeezled1786 muddled1790 hoddy-doddya1798 muzzy-headed1798 bother-headed1820 muddle-pated1823 pixilated1848 woolly1864 bungle-headed1865 mixed1880 muddlesome1887 wifty1918 woozy1941 spastic1981 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Mixt,..2. Denoting partial intoxication. 1872 Leeds Mercury 29 Aug. in J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang (1896) IV. 325/1 ‘No, Sir, he was not drunk, and he wornt sober.’ ‘You say he wasn't drunk?’ ‘No, Sir, he was mixed.’ 1880 Punch 4 Sept. 106 Tomkins's First Session... Rather ‘mixed’ after twenty-one hours' continuous sitting, he says [etc.]. 1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol II. i. xxiv. 106 I am myself a man of peace, who only carried a gun four times, and grew rather ‘mixed’ over it. 1893 Littell's Living Age 11 Feb. 432/3 I..find myself..in the snow, with my ideas rather mixed, my feet in the air, and the trunk of a young pine-tree..between my legs. 9. Phonetics. = central adj. 7. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [adjective] > types of openeOE sharp?1533 simple1582 small1599 soft1625 obscurea1637 round1710 slender1755 close1760 wide1824 lowered1836 narrow1844 labialized1856 orinasal1856 central1857 reduced1861 free1864 high1867 low1867 mid1867 mixed1867 rounded1867 unrounded1871 raised1876 unreduced1894 obscured1897 spread1902 lax1909 slack1909 tense1909 centralized1926 flat1934 r-coloured1935 checked1943 1867 A. M. Bell Visible Speech: Sci. Universal Alphabetics 72 The vowels..are divided into three classes of palato-lingual formations, according as the oral cavity is moulded mainly by the ‘Back’, the ‘Front’, or the ‘Mixed’ (Back and Front) attitudes of the tongue. 1890 H. Sweet Primer Spoken Eng. 4 In the vowels we distinguish three horizontal positions, or degrees of retraction of the tongue: back, mixed, front. 1918 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics 17 An example of a mixed vowel is the vowel in bird. 1966 M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. Mixed vowel, Migliorini's term for middle vowel. 10. a. Agriculture. Designating, relating to, or practising a system of agriculture which combines the raising of livestock with the cultivation of arable crops. Esp. in mixed farm, mixed farming. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming high culture1771 scientific farming1789 metaying1792 high farming1815 petite culture1848 sharefarming1857 urban agriculture1860 bush-farming1866 mixed farming1872 dry farming1878 co-aration1883 co-ploughing1883 smallholding1889 power-farming1913 dry-land farming1914 third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940 link system1950 green revolution1968 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > other farms home farm1749 city farm1750 county farm1785 factory farm1824 bird farm1842 provision farm1846 spade-farm1848 bush-farm1851 poor farm1852 sewage farm1870 cacao farm1871 mixed farm1872 vertical farm1897 prison farm1961 nuplex1968 1872 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1871 9 66 The majority of farmers, fruit-growers or others, generally succeed best by what is called mixed farming. 1889 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 4 24 Grain-raising everywhere means exhaustion of the soil; mixed agriculture, properly directed, returns to the soil as much as it takes therefrom. 1892 W. E. Swanton Notes on N.Z. ii. 89 The farm upon which, as in England, both sheep and cattle are carried and also crops are grown..is what is generally called a ‘mixed farm’. 1909 R. Kaleski Austral. Settler's Compl. Guide 12 The..mixed farmer selects too much. 1913 W. K. Harris Outback in Austral. xxiv. 169 The district is an ideal one for ‘mixed farming’ (wheat and sheep). 1942 E. Afr. Ann. 1941–2 128/2 Friends who own a mixed farm ask us over. The first signs of their successful management are the calves. 1958 Jrnl. Ecol. 46 220 The clayey soils carry cacao and food crops, often in mixed cultivation. 1973 Country Life 15 Mar. 713/2 In the southern region of England..the average price of mixed farms of 10–49 acres..rose to £915 an acre. 1990 Farmer's Weekly (Perth) 11 Oct. 19/4 (advt.) ‘Canabulup’ represents an excellent managed mixed farming property..with beautiful balanced soils. b. Town Planning. Designating the employment of an area of land for a combination of purposes (such as business and residential). ΚΠ 1932 Planning for Resid. Districts (President's Conf. Home Building) i. 18 Districts of one-time high grade residences..[were] given over to..mixed business and residence use. 1950 R. Dewey in Amer. Sociol. Rev. 15 503/2 The ecological processes of invasion and succession kept the situation fluid, creating problems of mixed land use on the periphery of the transition zone. 1991 J. Garreau Edge City vii. 247 These would be dense, walkable centers, a quarter of a mile in radius, with mixed use: residential, jobs, shopping. 2000 Toronto Star (Electronic ed.) 17 July More people living and working in the city. Intensification and mixed land use on arterial corridors [etc.]. Compounds C1. With nouns, forming compounds used attributively with the sense ‘having or involving a mixed ——’, or ‘having a mixture of types of ——’. mixed-ability adj. (also as n.). ΚΠ 1963 Guardian 28 Jan. 7/4 Everyone asks Mr Morris..how mixed-ability classes affect the number of grammar school entrances. 1989 G. Claxton Being Teacher (BNC) 3 The recent history of educational innovation, from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards. 1999 Press (Canterbury, N.Z.) (Electronic ed.) 19 June Mixed-ability teaching is being discouraged in favour of streaming by ability. mixed-crew adj. ΚΠ 1963 Daily Tel. 25 June 1/1 President Kennedy and Dr. Adenauer agreed in Bonn to-night that the proposed mixed-crew NATO nuclear force was ‘a good instrument for serving all members of the alliance in combining their defence efforts’. mixed-fleet adj. ΚΠ 1964 Economist 17 Oct. 228/2 A..contribution to the mixed-fleet command. 1986 Science 13 June 1336/1 It is not at all clear how the mixed-fleet strategy can be made to work in practice. mixed-function adj. ΚΠ 1957 Adv. Enzymol. 19 128 The term ‘mixed function oxidase’ is here applied to enzymes having two interdependent catalytic activities, reduction of one atom of an oxygen molecule coupled to specific oxygenation or hydroxylation with the other atom. 1999 Jrnl. Molecular Evol. 49 108 Sequencing of an 8182-bp chromosomal region in Pseudomonas stutzeri revealed the major portion of an apparent mixed-function supraoperon. mixed-income adj. ΚΠ 1966 Rev. Econ. Stud. 33 297 The assumption of ‘permanent’ classes of pure-profit and mixed-income receivers with given and unchanging saving propensities on which all of our theorems..depend critically. 1996 Amer. Econ. Rev. 86 591 Alternative policies: local versus state funding of schools..low-income public housing projects versus subsidies to mixed income developments. mixed-mode adj. ΚΠ 1971 Appl. Statistics 20 71 Its internal representation may or may not be of the same type as the external representation. When not, the same operations as in mixed-mode assignment take place. 1990 Independent 24 Jan. 23/2 The..plan envisages..‘mixed mode’ operations to allow aircraft to take off or land simultaneously. mixed-pressure adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > turbine > [adjective] > types of radial-flow1881 axial flow1889 mixed-pressure1909 mixed flow1958 refan1973 1909 Engineering 5 Feb. 198/1 A turbine of what is called a mixed-pressure type, having high-pressure stages, in which the live steam may..keep the turbine running during the periods of insufficient supply of exhaust steam. 1929 T. M. Naylor Steam Turbines i. 9 Mixed pressure turbines use both high-pressure and exhaust or low-pressure steam. 1971 B. Scharf Engin. & its Lang. xv. 209 We may..distinguish between straight condensing turbines, pass-out turbines, back-pressure turbines, exhaust turbines and mixed-pressure turbines. mixed-sex adj. ΚΠ 1956 Ecology 37 109/2 In a mixed-sex culture eggs are being added and destroyed constantly. 1995 Daily Tel. 21 Feb. 4/3 When a young policewoman accepts the keys to her room in a mixed-sex hostel, she is entering a male preserve. mixed-traffic adj. ΚΠ 1956 Railway Mag. Nov. 729/2 Many Drummond mixed-traffic 4-4-0 tender engines were tried on this route. 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 444 A racing Mini being loaded into a mixed-traffic, British United Airways, VC 10. mixed-use adj. ΚΠ 1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 June 29/1 The Colonnade is an old prototype for the new rage in downtown Toronto—mixed-use developments. 1993 Archit. Rev. Jan. 43/2 New interventions include..the insertion of two mixed-use infill buildings on the north and south sides of the square, to complete and animate the space. mixed-voice adj. ΚΠ 1948 Penguin Music Mag. June 49 The best members of these choirs..incorporated in..a secular mixed-voice choir. C2. mixed arch n. now rare an arch having three or four centres. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > other types of arch bowOE craba1387 cove1511 triumphal arch (arc)a1566 straight arch1663 pointed arch1688 rough arch1693 jack-arch1700 oxi1700 raking arch1711 flat arch1715 scheme-arch1725 counter-arch1726 ox-eye arch1736 surbased dome1763 ogee1800 rising arch1809 sub-arch1811 deaf arch1815 four-centred arch1815 mixed arch1815 Tudor arch1815 camber1823 lancet arch1823 invert1827 platband1828 pier arch1835 ogive1841 scoinson arch1842 segment1845 skew arch1845 drop-arch1848 equilateral arch1848 lancet1848 rear arch1848 straining-arch1848 tierceron1851 shouldered arch1853 archlet1862 segment-arch1887 1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 131 Mixed arches are of three centres. 1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 41 Mixed arches are of three centres, which look nearly like elliptical arches; or of four centres, commonly called the Tudor arch. mixed bed n. Horticulture a flower bed containing an assortment of plants. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > flower-bed arbourc1300 knot1502 cutwork1693 flower-border1712 panel1803 flower-court1828 mixed bed1866 flower-bed1873 carpet-bed1883 coffin1912 floral clock1925 1866 R. M. Copeland Country Life 664 The mixed bed demands a mixture of colors and a variety of sizes. 1986 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 22 June 15/1 Shivery grass can be grown among annuals and is a pleasant addition to a mixed bed. mixed bill n. a varied programme of entertainment, often containing elements of dance, music, and drama; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 July c5 Wednesday's fare was..a selection of music, dance and drama... On these mixed bills, it is easy to watch instrumentalists and become so fascinated by their movement that one forgets to listen. 1986 Time (Electronic ed.) 28 Apr. A mixed bill of celebrities has decided that the coolest thing on the hot restaurant scene is to own your own. 1999 Daily Tel. 26 May 23/7 Hart was equally the hero of Twyla Tharp's The Golden Section on last week's mixed bill. mixed border n. Horticulture a border containing an assortment of plants, usually including both shrubs and herbaceous plants. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > flower-bed > border borderc1540 bordure1691 wall-border1707 flower-border1712 box edging1718 platband1725 box edge1767 mixed border1868 herbaceous border1881 1868 D. Thomson Handy Bk. Flower Garden xii. 326 A mixed border of hardy and half-hardy plants..would be effective anywhere. 1903 W. Robinson Alpine Flowers (ed. 3) i. 34 The mixed-border system rightly done enables us to cultivate..many of the more vigorous alpine plants as edgings. 1990 Country Homes Oct. 100 In a mixed border you can have golden weigela and golden philadelphus surrounded by blue Jacob's ladder and nepeta in June. mixed bunch n. = mixed bag n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture hotchpotc1405 hodge-podgec1426 omnigatherum?a1430 mishmashc1475 peasemeala1525 omnium gatherum1530 mingle1548 hotchpotch1549 mingle-mangle1549 gallimaufry1551 rhapsody1574 sauce-medley1579 pell-mellc1586 linsey-woolsey1592 wilderness1594 brewage1599 motley1609 macaronic1611 medley1618 olla podridaa1635 farragoa1637 consarcination1640 porridge1642 olio1645 bisque1653 mélange1653 hash1660 jumble1661 farrage1698 capilotade1705 jargon1710 salmagundi1761 pasticcio1785 pea meal1789 ollapod1804 mixty-maxty1818 macédoine1820 ragbag1820 haggis1822 job lot1828 allsorts1831 conglomerate1837 pot-pourri1841 chow-chow1850 breccia1873 pastiche1873 macaroni1884 mixed bag1919 casserole1930 mixed bunch1958 rattle-bag1982 mulligan1993 1958 F. Leiber in Galaxy Sci. Fiction Mar. 12/2 The Place has sectional gravity to suit our Extraterrestrial buddies - those crazy ETs sometimes come whooping in for recuperation in very mixed bunches. 1993 Cycling Weekly 23 Jan. 22/1 Although the number of women racing has increased, they are a mixed bunch of abilities and in insufficient numbers to warrant category racing. mixed business n. Australian a shop selling a wide variety of goods, often incorporating a newsagent, delicatessen, etc., and sometimes also a petrol station; a convenience store. ΚΠ 1903 Sydney Morning Herald 6 Nov. 8/6 Mixed businesses. I have a special selection of genuine concerns suitable for 1 or 2 ladies. 1986 Canberra Times 24 May b16/4 26 km. south of Bateman's Bay, on the beach, mixed business, petrol, groceries, takeaway food. mixed cadence n. Music a cadence combining features of perfect and plagal cadences (see quots.). ΚΠ 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 294/2 Mixed Cadence, an old name for a cadence, consisting of a subdominant followed by a dominant and tonic chord; so called because the characteristic chords of the plagal and authentic cadences succeed each other. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music at Cadence A cadence whose final chord is prepared by subdominant and dominant harmonies..is sometimes called a ‘mixed’ cadence. mixed-celled adj. Pathology involving or containing cells of more than one kind. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > organisms by number or kind of cells > [adjective] monocellular1854 multicellular1857 unicellular1858 monoplastic1877 unicelled1877 multicelled1884 acellular1886 monoplastid1889 tricellular1891 single-celled1899 mixed-celled1908 microcellular1909 1908 Practitioner Feb. 235 Leucocythaemia..may be qualified by such descriptive titles as mixed-celled leucocythaemia..or lymphocytic leucocythaemia. 1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxv. 369 The cells [of a melanoma of the choroid]..may be cylindrical or palisade-like, arranged in columns or around blood vessels, or even endothelial in appearance; most tumours are mixed-celled. mixed chalice n. Christian Church the communion cup containing wine with water added to it (chiefly with reference to liturgical controversy over the practice of adding water). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > wine > [noun] > mixed with water ablution1740 mixed chalice1877 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 244 The course of the Church of England in respect of the Mixed Chalice. 1978 A. Dunstan in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy xiii. 273 Controversy raged between the ‘Usagers’ (those who wanted to return to certain practices claimed as primitive—the mixed chalice, epiclesis, etc.) and the ‘Non-Usagers’. 1998 Church Times 30 Jan. 10/4 Your questioner must be referring to the ‘mixed chalice’, a ritual point opposed by low-church Anglicans during the period 1850–90, but regarded as legal in the Lincoln judgment. mixed contract n. Civil Law a contract involving the exchange of benefits of unequal value (see quot. 1860). ΚΠ 1860 J. J. S. Wharton Law-lexicon (ed. 2) Mixed contract, one in which one of the parties confers a benefit on the other, and requires of the latter something of less value than what he has given; as a legacy charged with something of less value than the legacy itself. 1991 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 99 1070 We have not learned of a single instance of such a mixed contract. † mixed decrement n. Crystallography Obsolete decrement of a crystal face in which the number of molecules supposedly lost in width is different from the number supposedly lost in height, neither number being exactly divisible by the other. ΚΠ 1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 21 A mixed decrement is one in which unequal numbers of molecules are omitted in height and in breadth, neither of the numbers being a multiple of the other, such as three in height and two in breadth, or four in height and three in breadth. mixed doubles n. a game of tennis, badminton, etc., in which each side comprises one male and one female player. ΚΠ 1889 W. M. Brownlee Lawn-Tennis 167 Ladies never play carelessly in Mixed Doubles. 1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 296 In mixed doubles the lady is usually responsible for the net shots. 1992 Bowling Digest Mar. 58/1 The Cambridge mixed doubles is the only national pro tournament that isn't televised. mixed drink n. originally and chiefly U.S. a drink consisting of a mixture of different beverages, usually of one or more spirits with a non-alcoholic mixer. ΚΠ 1652 G. Fidge Great Eater Grayes-Inne 18 They plyed him so nimbly with mixed Drinks, that Marriot having but a weake head, was knockt down with drink. 1703 in C. J. Hoadly Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1868) IV. 437 Any person being duely convicted of keeping a tipling house, or selling strong beer, ale, cyder, perry, metheglin, wine, rumm, or mixt drinke. 1853 Sci. Amer. 16 July 346/1 Many people..do themselves great injury by excessive drinking, and not that of alcoholic beverages alone, but mixed drinks of various kinds, beers, soda waters, &c. 1995 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 19 Nov. 7/2 (advt.) They've got a lot to quench any thirst, including a selection of beer, wine, mixed drinks,..and ice tea. † mixed earth n. Obsolete an earth or soil (such as loam) consisting of a mixture of components. ΚΠ 1616 R. Surflet & G. Markham Countrie Farme 556 Any mixed earths or hassell-grounds which are clayes and sands or clayes and gravells mixed together. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 370 Earths, resulting from the union of earths, or sands, are called mixed, because the ingredients..may in great measure be mechanically separated. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 371 The only mixed earths, to which peculiar names have been assigned, are loam and mould. mixed economy n. an economic system containing both private and state enterprise. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system free market1642 peasant economy1883 agriculturism1885 money economy1888 price system1889 external economy1890 peace economy1905 war economy1919 planned economy1924 market economy1929 circular economy1932 managed economy1932 mixed economy1936 market socialism1939 plural economy1939 market capitalism1949 external diseconomy1952 siege economy1962 knowledge economy1967 linear economy1968 EMU1969 wage economy1971 grey economy1977 EMS1978 enterprise culture1979 new economy1981 tiger1981 share economy1983 gig economy2009 1936 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 30 858 Or is the prelude..to a ‘mixed’ economy operating under a revamped political democracy? 1973 Guardian 1 June 12/2 Neither Lonrho's shareholders nor Labour's fundamentalists provide an argument for abandoning the mixed economy. 1992 New Republic 10 Aug. 25/1 It may be harder because internationalization of commerce makes us more of a market and less of a mixed economy. mixed ether n. [after French éther mixte (G. Chancel 1850, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 31 522)] Chemistry an ether (ether n. 5c) having the formula R′OR″, where R′ and R″ are dissimilar alkyl groups. ΚΠ 1850 tr. G. Chancel in Chem. Gaz. 2 Dec. 455 The gas thus obtained was inflammable, very sparingly soluble in water, and possessed a peculiar aetherial odour; it was evidently the mixed æther..OMeEt. 1909 E. I. Lewis Elements Org. Chem. v. 42 Methyl-ethyl ether corresponds to no known alcohol; and since the radicles are unlike, it is called a mixed ether to distinguish it from the simple ethers already described. 2008 P. Warren & S. Wyatt Org. Synthesis (ed. 2) vii. 48 If the reaction worked at all, we should get dimers of each alcohol as well as the mixed ether. mixed feeding n. (a) the introduction of some solid food into a baby's diet of milk; (b) the provision of both breast milk and artificial milk in a baby's diet. ΚΠ 1904 L. M. Yale & G. Pollak Mother's Bk. 417 (heading) Evils of early mixed feeding... Should a child from three to five months old be fed at all from the table when there is a sufficiency of mother's milk? 1908 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 71 701 (table) Breast-fed..Bottle-fed..Mixed feeding. 1989 Stud. in Family Planning 20 203/1 Women who fully breastfeed their children do not generally resume menses as early as non-breastfeeding women, or women who practice mixed feeding. 1997 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 24 Oct. At around five months a baby goes on to mixed feeding. mixed fraction n. Mathematics a number consisting of an integer and a proper fraction; a mixed number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun] > mixed numbers mixed number1552 mixed fraction1706 1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 91 To Reduce an Improper Fraction into an Integer, or Mixt Fraction. 1989 J. Daintith & R. D. Nelson Penguin Dict. Math. 217/2 Mixed fraction, a fraction consisting of an integer together with a proper fraction; for example 1½. mixed greens n. chiefly North American a mixture of green vegetables and herbs, esp. used to make a salad. ΚΠ 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 July e1 Sauce Vincent... 1 ½ cups chopped mixed greens, including spinach, parsley, tarragon.., and, as available, watercress. 1996 Decanter June 33/1 A warm salad of mixed greens and chunks of roast duck. mixed herbs n. (with plural agreement) a mixture of herbs, spec. a commercially prepared mixture of culinary herbs. ΚΠ 1862 Times 28 Oct. 6/2 3,464 bundles of mixed herbs. 1910 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 11 Feb. 7/3 Four pepper corns, four cloves and one teaspoonful mixed herbs are the proper flavoring for one quart of water for soups. 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 May 51 With all the fresh herbs coming up pungent and delicious, make herb butter. It's easy. Just pick a handful of mixed herbs—I've used combinations of tarragon, sage, oregano, basil, thyme and dill—chop them fairly fine, and work into creamed butter. 2001 Cape Times 25 May ii. 16/4 Add a small packet of frozen peas, 2 cups dry red wine, 1 diced, peeled tomato, a goodly sprinkling of mixed herbs, salt and freshly-ground black pepper. mixed income n. an income derived partly from earnings and partly from other sources. ΚΠ 1927 A. L. Bowley & J. C. Stamp National Income 1924 17 In practice this gives an intermediate figure as the exemption limit for a ‘mixed income’. mixed land n. U.S. (now rare) land on which a variety of trees, esp. oak and hickory, grow together. ΚΠ 1741 in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1840) I. 158 Oak and Hickory, or Mixt Land. 1851 J. F. W. Johnston Notes N. Amer. 258 A wider, and perhaps a still more beautiful view of mixed land and water, high-land, forest, and cultivated fields. 1874 D. Eagan 6th Ann. Rep. Commissioner Lands State Florida 147 There are large districts of what are termed mixed lands, from the fact that red oak, hickory, gum and pine all grow together. mixed-manned adj. (of a military force) comprising people of more than one nationality. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > [adjective] > other types Pentomic1956 mixed-manned1963 1963 Economist 16 Mar. 980/3 The mixed-manned, mixed-money nuclear force that Mr Merchant is..trying to create. 1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 28 On June 4 Admiral C. V. Ricketts..arrived in London to sell the mixed-manned fleet to a reluctant Mr Thorneycroft. mixed manning n. the operation of a ship, etc., by a crew of more than one nationality. ΚΠ 1963 Times 11 June 13/6 I fail to understand the fuss about mixed manning for the proposed Nato nuclear surface fleet. 1968 Internat. Organization 22 834 Mixed manning in Colorado does not mean that strategy is jointly contrived. mixed martial arts n. a full-contact combat sport or fitness training method involving fighting techniques drawn from boxing, wrestling, and various martial arts; abbreviated MMA (see MMA n. at M n. Initialisms 1). ΚΠ 1993 Los Angeles Times 15 Nov. In..Brazil, where mixed-martial arts championships like this one are commonplace. 1996 R. W. Murray IFOR on IFOR i. 71 We were specially trained in martial arts, mixed martial arts, unarmed defence, and to kill in silence if we need to. 2008 J. Ferruggia Fit to Fight 3 Today we have mixed martial arts—where every successful competitor trains his punching, kicking, takedowns, groundwork, and submission holds on a regular basis. mixed message n. a message which conveys contradictory or inconsistent information, often unintentionally; (in plural) messages which (apparently) contradict each other (cf. mixed signals n.). ΚΠ 1883 Funny Folks 24 Nov. 371/1 It [sc. the electro-automatic evangelist] commenced to pour forth in the tones of a steam hooter, which penetrated to every corner of the tent, its somewhat mixed message. 1896 S. A. Underwood Automatic or Spirit Writing vi. 115 Mr. U. had been speaking of the frequent mixed messages, contradictions and occasional falsehoods in the earlier phases of his writing. 1975 L. A. Cove & R. S. Lourie in S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry (ed. 2) V. 776 Their [sc. a child's natural parents] intermittent appearances and mixed messages are probably the most potent barriers to the children's being able to..resolve relationship conflicts. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Oct. c12/1 Sales flagged and experts blamed the mixed message. Categories » mixed mode n. Philosophy see mode n. 6b. mixed money n. now historical coinage made from alloy; also in plural in same sense. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > coin of mixed metal mixed money1602 1602 in J. Simon Irish Coins (1749) 104 Three score pounds in mixt monies of the new standerd of this realme. 1615 J. Davies Le Primer Report des Cases en Ireland f. 18 La Roigne Elizabeth, pur payer les gages del Army..que fuit mainteine..a suppresser le rebellion de Tyrone, causast vn graund quantity de Mixt Moneyes..destre coine in le Tower de London. 1943 Polit. Sci. Q. 58 89 This device..was thoroughly discussed by the English Privy Council in the famous Mixed Money Case of 1603. 1979 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 39 349 Out of 36 documents..30 give a rate ranging from 2.5 bezants..to 2.593 bezants per pound of mixed money of Marseilles. mixed motion n. now historical and rare motion with a rectilinear and a circular component. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in curve > curved trajectory mixed motion1669 mixed range1669 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 68 (Plate) The mixt or Crooked Motion. 1969 Stud. in Renaissance 16 93 ‘Mixed motion’ (i.e. a compound motion, made up of both rectilinear and circular motion). mixed nerve n. Anatomy a nerve which contains both sensory and motor nerve fibres. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [noun] sensitive?a1425 motivec1475 life stringc1522 recurrent1615 life corda1631 abducent1681 cord1774 chord1783 motor1824 afferent1828 excitor1836 nerve trunk1850 mixed nerve1861 inhibitory nerve1870 nervelet1875 vaso-motor1887 pilomotor1892 lemniscus1913 1861 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 647 The determination of several definite points in sentient and mixed nerves, often the seats of neuralgic pain. 1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. i. 390 All the spinal nerves are mixed nerves, composed of afferent and efferent, of motor and sensory fibres. 1977 Brain Res. 136 32 All the studies were made on the 16th spinal (mixed) nerve. mixed nuts n. a mixture of several varieties of nuts. ΚΠ 1876 Chicago Tribune 17 Dec. 5/7 (advt.) Mixed nuts, per lb..14c. 2004 Nature 27 May 352/2 In a container of mixed nuts, the brazil nuts always seem to rise to the top. mixed pickles n. vegetables of several kinds pickled together. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > pickles or chutney achar1598 conditurea1682 pickle1693 chutney1813 mixed pickles1857 1857 J. H. Walsh Man. Domest. Econ. 407 For Mixed Pickles, prepare [etc.]. 1952 New Orleans Item 28 Feb. 17/5 'Way back yonder when a poorboy sandwich was just that—namely, a five-cent filling of bread, meat and mixed pickles for a poor boy. mixed programme n. chiefly North American = mixed bill n. ΚΠ 1926 Radio Broadcast Feb. 447 in Concept of Mass Audience in Amer. Broadcasting (1979) 79 The mixed program is doubtless the program director's honest effort to reach and entertain the maximum number of people of widely varying tastes. 1995 Toronto Star 3 Apr. a2 We think a deal on enforcement will be a mixed program with more observers and inspectors than satellites in the beginning. † mixed proportion n. Mathematics Obsolete the proportion of the sum of the terms of a given ratio to their difference. ΚΠ 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Mixt Reason, or Proportion. † mixed range n. Obsolete rare = mixed motion n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in curve > curved trajectory mixed motion1669 mixed range1669 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 75 Every Shot made upon the Level hath the mixt or Crooked-Range thereof. † mixed ratio n. Mathematics Obsolete = mixed proportion n. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Mixt Ratio, or Proportion. mixed reality n. a medium consisting of immersive computer generated environments in which elements of a physical and virtual environment are combined.Mixed reality is sometimes taken to exclude augmented reality and to refer solely to environments in which virtual elements can interact with physical ones. ΚΠ 1994 P. Milgram & F. Kishino in IEICE Trans. Information & Syst. 77 1321/2 In this paper we focus on a particular subclass of VR related technologies that involve the merging of real and virtual worlds, which we refer to generically as Mixed Reality. 2019 S. Greengard Virtual Reality vii. 190 Virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality will certainly not replace physical reality, but these technologies will introduce an overlay that sometimes displaces and often extends the ‘real’ world. † mixed reason n. Mathematics Obsolete = mixed proportion n. ΚΠ 1695 W. Alingham Geom. Epitomiz'd 19 Mixt Reason, is the comparing the sum of the Antecedent and Consequent, to the difference of the Antecedent and Consequent. mixed school n. a school in which girls and boys, or (later also) children from different communities, are taught together. ΚΠ 1826 D. Ramsay (title) Delineation of a mixed school in regard to its influence in promoting a Christian education. 1863 P. W. Joyce School Managem. 47 A mixed school, in which the girls do not learn needlework, is, so far as the time-table is concerned, the same as a boys' school. 1922 ‘R. Crompton’ More William (1924) viii. 125 William attended a mixed school because his parents hoped that feminine influence might have a mellowing effect upon his character. 1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 31 May 2/5 Twenty-eight boards of education have 31,427 secondary students enrolled in 59 French-language or mixed schools. 1999 Sunday Mirror (Electronic ed.) 5 May Both of them were baptised at home with a Methodist minister and a Catholic priest in attendance. They go to a mixed school. mixed signals n. signals which (apparently) contradict each other (cf. mixed message n.). ΚΠ 1905 Washington Post 13 July 8/3 The play showed the lack of team work and mixed signals again. 1966 Eng. Jrnl. 55 913/2 I know more than one school teacher or English professor..who has finally rebelled at the delays, the mixed signals, the red tape that are often encountered before a proposal is finally approved. 2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) viii. 181 For juries who believe..the woman [sc. a rape victim] may have given mixed signals by her own behaviour, the judge's direction is a let-out. mixed spice n. a mixture of ground spices prepared for cooking, typically including cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. ΚΠ 1869 A. S. Wright Wright's Bk. 3000 Pract. Receipts 189 Common Gingerbread. Treacle, 3 pounds; seconds flour, 4 pounds;..ginger, 2 ounces; mixed spice, 2 ounces. 1997 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Apr. 33/3 Beat the ricotta cheese in a bowl with the vanilla essence and mixed spice. mixed technique n. a painting technique in which tempera and oil-resin paints are combined or overlaid. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > oil medium with distemper mixed technique1935 mixed media1945 1935 E. Neuhaus tr. M. Doerner Materials of Artist v. 240 Painting with tempera into wet resin-oil color (mixed technique). This technique is better suited to a deliberate, stylistic type of painting. 1969 R. Mayer Dict. Art Terms & Techniques 246/1 Mixed technique, in painting, the technique of combining tempera colors with paints of an oleoresinous medium... Mixed technique first became known in the U.S. and Britain in 1934. mixed tone n. Music rare the peregrine tone (one of the Gregorian tones). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > chanted > plainchant > tone > specific tone peregrine tone1609 mixed tone1844 1844 W. B. Heathcote Canticles ii A ninth [tone] is generally added..called ‘Mixed’. mixed train n. a train formed of both passenger carriages and goods wagons; (formerly also) a train consisting of carriages of different classes. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > carrying different classes or passengers and goods mixed train1838 mixed1934 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 115/1 The mixed train which leaves Birmingham at half-past four. 1839 Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables 25 Oct. The Mixed Trains consist of First Class Carriages carrying six inside, and of 2d class carriages open at the side. 1850 D. Lardner Railway Econ. 481 Mixed trains, by which goods and passengers are indifferently carried. 1972 J. Minifie Homesteader xvii. 145 The thrice-weekly mixed train..was snorting to itself, prior to undertaking the return trip. mixed veld n. South African Agriculture pasture consisting of a mixture of vegetation, such as grass and scrub, or sweetveld and sourveld. ΚΠ 1880 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (ed. 3) 155 No one can be long at the Cape, if he takes an interest in farms, without hearing of Sweet Veldt and Sour Veldt and Mixed Veldt. 1910 A. B. Lamont Rural Reader 252 Mixed veld is a mixture of grass and bushes. 1992 F. P. Van Oudtshoorn Guide to Grasses 39 Mixed veld represents an intermediate form between sweetveld and sourveld. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1934adj.¹c1300adj.²?a1425
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