mingledadj.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 231 (MED) Halfe a quarter of corne menglyd, þat is to sey, of whete corne & of rye.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xix. 19 Nether sowe thy felde with myngled sede.

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Biii The heauens gan roumble sore: In tayle thereof, a myngled showre wyth hayle.

1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iii. 109 This last speech a mingled sigh out brought, Which to suppresse, but all in vaine she sought.

1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxv. 20 All the mingled people. View more context for this quotation

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 134 The Reereward..consisting of two thousand mingled weapons, with two wings of Horsemen,..all of them cast into square maniples.

a1729 J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) 330 Even the best of us appear contented with a mingled, imperfect Virtue.

1748 J. Hervey Medit. among Tombs in Medit. & Contempl. (ed. 4) I. 37 See their mingled Graces transfused into their Offspring.

1788 J. Madison in Federalist Papers xiv. 85 The kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union.

1811 P. B. Shelley St. Irvyne xi. 214 The tall ash and oak, in mingled umbrage, sighed far above their heads.

1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xii. 193 ‘How beautifully you do it; I wish I could draw,’ said Meg, with mingled admiration and regret in her voice.

1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 55 I see the poor savage returning sadly to his home and gazing with mingled scorn and humiliation at his futile image of wood and stone.

1969 G. Greene Coll. Ess. II. iii. 164 A better painting than ever came out of Fitzroy Square with all the mingled talents there of Madox Brown and Morris, Rossetti and Burne-Jones.

1988 M. Chabon Myst. Pittsburgh ii. 23 Her eyes were large and brown, made up with..three mingled eye-shadows.

1580 P. Hume Promine 81 in D. Laing Sel. Remains (1885) Than fair dame Flora glaiding gardings gay..His minglit mantill meklie did display.

1612 in W. M. Myddelton Chirk Castle Accts. (1908) I. 8 Item x yeards of mingled colored karsey at six shillings six pence the yeard.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 74 The webbe of our life, is of a mingled yarne, good and ill together. View more context for this quotation

1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 118 Silk, of which they make Velvets, Sattins, Taffataes, either plain, or mingled, or striped in party-colours.

1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §xxv, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) Mingled cloath; Panno mischio, ò panno vergato.

1832 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 604/1 In the mingled yarn of human life.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss II. v. vii. 314 Apparently the mingled thread in the web of their life was so curiously twisted together, that there could be no joy without a sorrow coming close upon it.

1957 Econ. Jrnl. 67 267 Another strand in the mingled yarn of classical theory that Dr. Meek disentangles with great skill is the development of the idea of profit as a normal component of price.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie H 381 Here and there, mingledly, sparsim.

a1627 W. Sclater Brief Comm. Malachy (1650) 24 Duties to him performed, mingledly, of feare and love.