a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 63/2 The mengling of whose bloodes together, hath bene the effusion of great parte of the noble bloode of this realme.

1590 J. Penry Humble Motion Submission 26 The disorders in the holy offices are either by mingling or mangling. Mingling is of two sorts, first the superfluity of offices and officers, as Archbishops, L. Bishops... There is also a second mingling in their workes, as..he wilbe a Pastor ouer some 2. or 3. churches.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §232 Sound is likewise Meliorated by the Mingling of open Aire with Pent Aire.

1667 Hist. Making Gunpowder in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 279 When the Materials are in this readiness, they..are carried to the mingling Trough.

a1687 W. Petty Papers (1927) II. 117 What minglings of Male and Female are sins against God, or crimes against their Magistracy?

1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xxviii. 135 There was a reproach in them [sc. his eyes], but with a mingling of pity!

1819 T. Chalmers Let. 15 Dec. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1850) II. 250 From my extensive minglings with the people, I am quite confident in affirming [etc.].

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades 99 The various sorts of paper of which a card-board is composed are then placed alternately in the manner called by the trade ‘mingling’.

1883 Athenæum 1 Dec. 695/1 There was a constant mingling of merchant princes and illustrious professors.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. viii. 127 The moon..made strange spectral minglings of light and darkness in the woods.

1959 V. Nabokov Let. 10 July in Sel. Lett. (1989) 294 A..well watered Arizona canyon where the mingling of deciduous trees with desertic elements of flora forms a fascinating ecological paradox.

1991 D. Means Quick Kiss for Redempt. 191 I mixed into the after-church mingling.

1685 S. Wesley Maggots 168 Horridly gay their Teeth, and Nails were painted ore With flesh confus'd, and Skin, and Brains, and mingling Gore.

1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 424 Can'st thou, remote, the mingling Hosts descry With Hands unactive, and a careless Eye?

1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 408 The Forest seems One mingling Blaze.

1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 116 The mingling notes came softened from below.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xxiii. 72 When mingling souls forget to blend, Death hath but little left him to destroy.

1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiii. 116 Rank after mingling rank..but each Condign, and in a personality Confest.

1909 J. Payne Flower o' Thorn 21 Its body bright, inlaid With many a mingling shade Of blue, coerulean, sapphire, smalt, [etc.].

1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton xi. 255 The mingling aromas of confectionery, fleed cakes, and bags of flour.