mixturen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmɪkstʃə/, U.S.

/ˈmɪk(st)ʃər/

Forms: late Middle English myxtur, late Middle English– mixture, 1500s mixtur, 1500s myxture, 1600s mizture, 1800s mixter; Scottish pre-1700 mixtiour, pre-1700 mixtour, pre-1700 1700s– mixture, 1800s mixtur, 1800s– mixter, 1900s– mixtur'.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mixture; Latin mixtūra.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French mixture a mixture, a particular mixture or blend (late 12th cent. in Old French as misture , 13th cent. as mixture ; 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman denoting sexual intercourse; 16th cent. in Middle French denoting a medicinal preparation; compare also Old French mesture a mixture, a mixture of grain, maslin (13th cent.)) and their etymon classical Latin mixtūra (also mistūra ; compare later misture n.²) the action of mixing, introduction of other elements, a mixture, compound, interbreeding of animals, in post-classical Latin also sexual intercourse (late 12th cent. in a British source), cloth of mixed fabric or colour (1347 in a British source) < mixtus mixed adj.² + -ūra -ure suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan mestura, Portuguese mistura (13th cent.), Italian mistura (14th cent.), Spanish mistura, mixtura (15th cent.). Compare also Middle High German mixtūre (13th cent.; German Mixtur). N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (mi·kstiŭɹ, -tʃəɹ) /ˈmɪkstjʊə(r)/, /ˈmɪkstʃə(r)/.

A. n.

I. The action or result of mixing.

a. A (material or immaterial) product of mixing; a blend or combination; an aggregate of heterogeneous ingredients. Usually with of.

ΘΚΠ

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

mingingOE

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mix-up1918

mix1959

meld1973

katogo1994

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 72^v (MED) Medecenez..oweþ to be mitigatiue as is þe mixture of 3 partes of oile rosis & 1 of hony.

a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 9 Putte al þat mixture into a strong watir..and þe siluyr wole be dissolued.

a1560 W. Kennedy Passioun of Christ in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 47 Of diuers spicis a sindry mixtour.

1582 Bible (Rheims) John xix. 39 Bringing a mixture of myrrhe and aloes.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 30 That braue youth; the splendor of whose eye A wondrous mixture shew'd of grace and maiestie.

1676 J. Glanvill Ess. Pref. sig. a3^v The [seventh] Essay is a mixture of an Idæa, and a disguised History.

1686 A. Behn Montre, or Lover's Watch 212 Neither too white, nor too black; but such a Mixture of the two Colours, as makes it the most agreeable in the World.

1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Jan. (1948) II. 606 There was a mixture of Company.

a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 435 The agreeable mixture of shades and fountains, in which the whole country naturally abounds.

1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. viii. 227 His conduct..was..a fatal mixture of weakness and temerity.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 314 A simple mixture of sand and clay.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 199 His mixture of surprise, joy, and anxiety, did not deprive him of the presence of mind which the occasion demanded.

1875 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 28 67 When phenol is gently warmed with phthalic anhydride and sulphuric acid the mixture assumes a brownish yellow colour.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 826 The vessels may be all veins,..capillaries,..or very commonly a mixture of both.

1902 T. M. Lindsay Church & Ministry in Early Centuries vi. 258 The sorry mixture of Paganism and Christianity which [etc.].

1926 Travel Nov. 44/1 Honduras has a well-attuned mixture of white and Indian, with the Indian beginning to emerge as a separate group.

1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down i. i. 13 The odour in the room suggested a mixture of wet plaster and unwashed feet.

1958 I. Orga Turkish Cooking 114 Take the onion mixture and fill the aubergines with this.

1988 A. Desai Baumgartner's Bombay ii. 27 He went up with a mixture of relief and reluctance.

†b. = mixt n. 2. Obsolete.

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

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mixt1644

mixtum1656

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies To Rdr. In the two following books, is treated of that which concernes the Elements and naturall mixtures, as Mettalls, Plants, Beasts, and what else is remarkable at the Indies.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xiii. 248 We..will passe to the two other mixtures, the which are plants and beasts.

1637 J. Milton Comus 9 Can any mortall mixture of Earths mould Breath such Divine inchanting ravishment?

†2. Sexual intercourse, esp. unlawful or promiscuous union. Cf. mix v. 3b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse

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Venus exercise?1507

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amation1623

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other1922

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Sir Berkeley1937

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home plate1972

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fanny1993

a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 450 Partles of mannes knolege or mixture, Thys holy byrth, thys blessyd natiuite..The holy gost by grace did hyt so be.

1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore ii. i. 432 Bellafronte [a Courtesan]. For whose true love I would becom pure-honest, Hate the worlds mixtures, and the smiles of gold.

?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses viii. 117 The Sunne their mixture saw; and came, and told.

1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 38 Thee [sc. Melancholy] bright-hair'd Vesta long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore; His daughter she (in Saturns raign, Such mixture was not held a stain).

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xix. 9 Paraphr.) 106 The dread of offending God keeps the man from all impure mixtures.

1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. ii. 8 Promiscuous Mixtures had been allow'd of amongst them.

1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 11 I..With monstrous Mixture stain'd my Mother's Bed.

3. The action or an act of adding something as an ingredient; the presence of a heterogeneous element in the composition of something; admixture. Also: an amount or proportion of something added. without mixture: unmixed, pure.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient

admixtiona1398

mixture1526

admixture1531

mixtion1557

admistion1565

infusion1626

impregnation1651

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Mi^v Whether..these bothe sayd thynges be togyther in your soule without ony mixture of the contrary.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 161/1 For when the gospell speketh of wyne onely tourned into his precious blode, what man woulde aduenture to make any mixture of water.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lix^v Suche ministers as should preache Gods worde sincerely, without any mixture of mens traditions.

1611 Bible (King James) Rev. xiv. 10 The same shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God, which is powred out without mixture into the cup of his indignation.

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 15 His [sc. King Edgar's] Pious Acts were, that he built and prepared seven and forty Monasteries... But now his mixture of Vice marred all.

1670 W. Temple Let. to Dk. Tuscany in Wks. (1731) II. 221 Such is the Composition of human Things, that nothing is pure or without Mixture.

1720 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1906) VII. 186 His Conversation, which was generally facetious, not without a Mixture of Satyr.

1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §1 In order therefore to a clear and distinct Knowledge of things, we must uncloath them of all these Relations and Mixtures, that we may contemplate them naked, and in their own Natures.

1750 G. G. Beekman Let. 29 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 116 Send me..Barbadose Rum if to be had at 26/ a gallon no mixture.

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. xix. 129 The soil in which there is a great mixture of moss.

1833 C. Lamb Pop. Fallacies xiii, in Last Ess. Elia 264 The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

1845 W. Youatt Dog (1858) vii. 211 His bark..had a slight mixture of the howl, and there was a husky choking noise in the throat.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1110/2 Sulphureus, sulphur-colour; a pale bright-yellow, with a mixture of white.

1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 May Green forage should be ensilated without mixture of any dry substances.

1935 Discovery July 208/1 A minute sample of the bath water is..‘doped’ by the mixture of few drops of ‘O.T.’ (Ortho-Tolidine).

1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 268/2 A very rich white silk painted with flowers or bouquets with foliage, with a light mixture of gold in the pattern.

a. The action or process of mixing or of becoming mixed; the fact of being mixed or combined; an instance of this. Now rare.

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

mingingOE

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intermixtion?1520

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immixture1859

interminglement1873

interfuse1887

melding1939

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

mixture1663

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 420/1 I allaye, as mettals be alayde or as sylver or golde is with their myxture, je attrempe.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. x. 165 Or of the mixture [1592 mixtur] of the elements.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 53 If the Moone should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the yeare blend themselues by disordered and confused mixture.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 62 That mixtures in garments, seedes, and the like, were forbidden by the Law of Moses.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 76 This river..passeth through the Lake Thonitis without mixture of waters by reason of this swiftnesse.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 11 A good Surveyour sheweth his Art..in the fit mixture of Materials, Morter [etc.].

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Mixture, in Matters of Drapery, the Union, or rather Confusion of several Wools of different Colours, not yet spun.

1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments i. 10 When those Liquors are expell'd out of the Body, which by their Mixture convert the Aliment into an Animal Liquid.

1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion ii. ii. 215 Mixtures of different kinds of food are strongly condemned by almost all writers on dietetics, as injurious to digestion.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. v. 250 From the intimate mixture of air and water we obtain foam.

1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) at Mixing the Ingredients Five minutes is sufficient for a thorough mixture.

1929 E. C. Thomas Lay Folks' Hist. Liturgy xxii. 130 The mixture of water with the wine was omitted at the offertory.

†b. A mixed or intermingled state or condition; the coexistence in such a state of different ingredients or different groups or classes of things. Obsolete.

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

commixtion?a1475

temperature1538

mixture1585

commixation1605

commistion1666

mixedness1668

1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke sig. Ciiii The badd is seperated from the obedience and mixture of the good.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlvii. 95 O happie mixture wherein things contrary do so qualifie and correct the one the daunger of the others excesse.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια Pref. 1 A Discourse of the constitution of mans body, as he enioyeth a perfect or apportionated health by a due Mixture of the principles whereof he consisteth; of the Temperament of each part arising from that mixture.

†c. Mixed nature, complexity. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun]

intricatenessa1586

perplexednessa1586

involution1611

mixture1614

complicateness1656

puzzledness1662

complexedness1690

complexation1707

complexness1727

complexity1790

complication1793

complicacy18..

complicatedness1818

complicity1847

involvedness1867

multiplexity1938

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World Pref. sig. A How vnfit, and..vnworthy a choice I..made of my self, to vndertake a worke of this mixture; mine own reason..hath sufficiently resolued me.

d. spec. The mixing of or reproduction between different racial groups, lines, breeds, etc., of people or animals; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun]

mongrelism1598

mixture1634

half-breed1775

half-caste1798

mixed blood1817

Eurasianism1833

mongrelity1859

mulism1861

miscegenation1863

miscegenesis1880

miscegeny1887

métissage1891

half-castism1896

1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck iv. sig. H^v His mixture with our bloud..shall no way interrupt A generall peace.

1676 A. Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata ii. 13 From their mixture with the Celtæ..they were called Celtæ.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vi. 216 We have Reason to think this not impossible, since Mules, and Gimars, the one from the mixture of an Horse, and an Ass, the other from the mixture of a Bull, and a Mare, are so frequent in the World.

1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xi. 171 The Pamunkies are reduced to about 10 or 12 men, tolerably pure from mixture with other colours.

1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 20 The tribe of people, termed..Cafusos..are known to have sprung originally from a mixture of native Americans with the Negroes imported from Africa.

1845 W. Youatt Dog (1858) iv. 155 The shock-dog is traced by Buffon..to a mixture of the small Danish dog and the pug.

1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Politics ii. 69 The continual mixtures by conquest were just so many experiments in mixing races as are going on in South America now.

1974 J. R. Baker Race iv. 57 He favoured the forcible sterilization of criminals..and the enactment of laws against race-mixture.

†e. Association, social integration. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun]

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affinity?c1400

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compernagea1500

frequentation?1520

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companionship1548

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community1570

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conversinga1610

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consociety1624

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togetherness1656

association1659

consortiona1682

sociality1758

mixture1764

junction1783

consortation1796

conversancy1798

mingling1819

companionage1838

boon companionship1844

mateship1849

1764 J. Smith in F. Chase Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1891) I. 26 He intended..to send his son to obtain his education in mixture with these Indians.

II. Specific concrete uses.

5. A preparation for medicinal or similar purposes, consisting of two or more ingredients mixed together; spec. a liquid medicine, as opposed to pills, powder, or other solid forms. the mixture as before: (as a set phrase often found on medicine bottles) medicine to be taken in a similar dose as on a previous occasion; (in extended use) something repeated or already encountered.Bordeaux, Burgundy, cough, freezing mixture, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > medicine of mixed ingredients

confectiona1398

mixtiona1398

diatessaronc1400

ingredience1526

mixture1562

diapente1610

ingrediency1639

tetrapharmacon1728

polypharmaceutical1961

1562 W. Bullein Bulwarke of Defence sig. I.ii^v By mixture understande, what sondrie Confections and Electuariis, bee mingled together..to purge choller, etc.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iii. 20 What if this mixture do not worke at all?

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 104 With some mixtures powerfull ore the blood,..He wrought vpon her.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 214 A strong freezing Mixture.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mixture, in a Physical Sense, several Ingredients or Drugs mixt in a Medicine.

1757 B. Franklin Let. 14 Apr. in Papers (1963) VII. 189 I have never seen the chymical Mixtures made, but Salt and Snow I have often mixed myself.

1786 J. Woodforde Diary 18 Aug. (1926) II. 264 She is to take a Wine Glass of the Mixture..every six Hours.

1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 513 A pint of this mixture was presented to him.

1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica vii. 316 A syrup, which is frequently added to antispasmodic mixtures.

1834 C. Dickens Let. 3 Sept. (1965) I. 40 I have taken a wine-glass full of ‘the mixture as before’ twice a day, varying the amusement with an occasional pill.

1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxiv. 327 Be sure she takes that tonic mixture three times a day.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 18 Mixtures are preparations in which one or more medicinal substances are held in suspension in water. Of such nature are emulsions, in which some oily material is suspended by a gummy or an albuminous body.

1904 Longman's Mag. Feb. 304 I took a sip of the horrid mixture.

1920 P. G. Wodehouse Little Warrior viii. 148 There he sat, surrounded by happy, laughing young men, each grasping a glass of the good old mixture-as-before.

1959 Listener 26 Feb. 363/1 What special or new responsibilities do these developments place upon industry? Some will say that it is the mixture as before, but in larger and more frequent doses.

1994 Time 4 July 61/2 He handed Bosscher 20 sleeping pills and a toxic liquid mixture.

6. A variegated or mottled fabric, usually of subdued colouring.See also heather-mixture n. at heather n. Compounds 2, Oxford mixture n. at Oxford n. and adj. Compounds 2.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [noun] > multicoloured

mellay1341

motley1371

marvel1543

marble1555

verry1603

mixture1682

mixed cloth1696

1682 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 25 The coursest of these clothes either black or mixture.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 367 5 yds Crimson [cloth].., and the rest of fine Mixtures.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A mixture, or mix'd Stuff, is that whose Woof and Warp are of Wools of different Colours dy'd and mix'd before they were spun.

1799 Hull Advertiser 12 Jan. 2/3 Woollen drapery, jeans, quiltings,..plains, mixtures.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 347/2 Mixtures. A term applied to any cloths of variegated colouring, such as Knickerbockers and Tweeds.

1910 Dry Goods Reporter 22 Oct. 21 (advt.) The polo coat, 55 inches long, made in a complete line of mixtures..as well as the regular polo cloth.

7. Music. More fully mixture stop. An organ stop with several ranks of pipes; a compound stop or furniture stop. Cf. compound adj. 2f, furniture n. 8.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > mixture-stops

furniture1690

mixture stop1694

1694 B. Smith Specif. for Cathedral Organ in Documents illustr. Hist. St. Paul's Cathedral (1880) 162 Stops in the Great Organ... Cornet. Mixtures. Sesquialtera.

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. i. x. 147 The compound stops are the..Mixture,..and sundry others.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Stop Mixture, or Furniture Stop. The mixture is nearly the same as the sesquialtera, and greatly enriches the instrument.

1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 293/2 Sometimes the Mixture stop is considered as part of the Sesquialter.

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 192/1 Furniture, the name of one of the mixture stops in an organ.

1976 Gramophone Mar. 1488/1 Imagine a pedal department containing no fewer than 22 stops..with only a five-rank mixture to leaven the lump.

1995 Church Times 16 June 24/5 Ernest Bullock delivers an urgent and authoritative account of the double fugue in the opening movement of Mendelssohn's Third Sonata: here the mixtures are remarkably bright.

8. Chemistry. The product of the mechanical mixing of two or more substances without chemical change (as opposed to a compound). Also mechanical mixture, simple mixture (originally opposed to chemical mixture).In quot. 1766, applied to a suspension in a liquid as opposed to a solution, though the latter would now also be regarded as a type of mixture. Cf. quot. 1875 at sense A. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical admixture or isolation > [noun] > mechanical mixing

mixture1766

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical admixture or isolation > [noun] > product of mechanical mixture

simple mixture1766

mechanical mixture1887

the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > fluids > [noun] > containing some foreign substance in suspension

mixture1766

1766 W. Hamilton in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 150 I think..we may consider the transparency of a heterogeneous fluid..as the criterion of a true solution, and where that is wanting, it is only a mixture.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 184/1 Chemical mixture is attended with many phenomena which are never observed in simple mixtures.

1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 297 These mixtures are more fusible than either of their constituents.

1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. v. 46 The air is a mixture, and not a chemical compound of constituent gases.

1887 I. Remsen Elem. Chem. (1897) i. 9 Mechanical Mixtures and Chemical Compounds.—In a mixture the substances are unchanged... In a chemical compound the substances which are in combination are completely changed.

1912 J. W. Mellor Mod. Inorg. Chem. xix. 359 Metallic rubidium is prepared by heating an intimate mixture of the carbonate with finely divided carbon.

1961 J. N. Anderson Appl. Dental Materials (ed. 2) vi. 56 One such reaction..involves the breakdown as a solid solution at a definite temperature to produce an intimate mechanical mixture of two solids.

1987 K. A. Robinson Chem. Anal. xvii. 654 If enough information is available, all of the components of spectrally unresolved mixtures can be quantified.

1994 W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire iv. 141 Van Helmont asserts that what we would today call a ‘mechanical mixture’, such as the juxtaposition of sand and grains of salt, is not a compound at all, but a ‘bare commingling.’

9. A product made up of a blend of ingredients of differing qualities, flavours, etc.; esp. of tea, tobacco, or snuff.Usually with modifying word indicating the variety.

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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > types of dry tea > mixture of tea leaves

mixture1840

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > mixture of snuff

mixture1840

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > mixture of tobacco

mixture1872

1840 B. E. Hill Pinch—of Snuff 32 Prince's Mixture..is nothing more than plain brown Rappee scented with otto of roses.

1872 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 286 I'm going in to get a canister of smoking mixture to take down with me.

1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 34 ‘This is Grosvenor mixture at eightpence an ounce’, Holmes answered, knocking a little out on his palm.

1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine iii. 145 He..started filling it from a tin of Brinkmann's Standard Mixture.

1966 P. K. Dick in Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Apr. 4/2 He..brought out a yellow, small tin of fine Dean Swift snuff. He inhaled briskly, and the Beau Nash mixture stung his nose.

10. In an internal combustion engine: the vaporized or gaseous fuel mixed with air that enters the combustion chamber to form the explosive charge.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > gaseous, vaporous, or vaporized

oxyhydrogen1823

acetylene1860

isobutane1876

albo-carbon1878

mixture1878

producer gas1883

astatki1885

hydrazine1887

oxy-gas1900

oxyacetylene1907

suction gas1907

propane gas1930

oxy-propane1963

oxy-fuel1967

syngas1975

autogas1982

1848 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 6 May 303/1 What is the moving power? The answer will be heard with surprise: the successive explosions of a mixture of gas and air in the boxes at the root of the wings, by which means they will be made to flap about twelve times a minute!]

1878 Sci. Amer. Mar. 195/1 A flame brought in contact with this mixture produces its rapid combustion.

1894 B. Donkin Text-bk. Gas, Oil, & Air Engines i. 6 Sometimes an auxiliary pump is used for compressing the mixture.

1914 W. D. Newton War iii. 19 Brun shut off mixture, and, slowing down, he swung from the motor-cycle.

1943 A. P. Fraas Aircraft Power Plants vi. 107 The power loss resulting from mixtures 10 or 20 per cent leaner than that for best power is not large as compared with the reduction in fuel consumption.

1988 Prix Editions Internat. June 23/1 The McLaren team gave Prost instructions on what mixture settings to run.

†11. Printing. A supplement charged by a printer for a piece of work requiring more than the usual range of typefaces (see quot. 1888). Obsolete. rare.

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1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 83 Mixture, an extra charge involved on composition if three or more types are used in a work.

12. Petrol to which has been added a small proportion of oil, used as a combined fuel and lubricant in some two-stroke engines. Also called petroil.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > liquid

naphthec1384

naphtha1543

paraffin1851

kerosene1854

octylene1857

shale-oil1857

coal oil1859

gasoline1863

octane1867

octene1868

octyne1877

gas1878

liquid fuel1889

petrol1895

mazut1897

white fuel1901

diesel oil1905

autogas1908

juice1909

sauce1918

power kerosene1919

petroil1921

ethyl1923

lox1923

kero1930

isooctane1932

high-octane1933

hi-octane1933

Calor1936

pool petrol1939

super1939

pool1940

derv1948

platformate1949

mixture1952

diesel1953

Mapp gas1962

gasohol1971

super unleaded1975

synoil1976

synjet1979

biodiesel1986

Orimulsion1987

1927 A. W. Judge Mod. Motor Engineer III. vi. 164 Two-stroke engines using the ‘petroil’ (i.e. petrol and oil mixture) system of lubrication.]

1952 Cyclemotor Man. (‘Motor Cycling’) iii. 20 Use of oil of too thick a grade may result in the mixture being too heavy to pass through the carburetter jet in sufficient quantity.

1960 J. Queenborough Garage & Service Station Handbk. xv. 263 Avery-Hardoll Ltd., market the Petroiler which can deliver a choice of two mixtures; there are tanks for petrol (13³/ ₄ gallons) and two grades of oil (1³/ ₄ gallons each).

1972 J. Stevens Scooter iv. 99 The first scooters had engines calling for a 6% oil content in the mixture.

B. adj. (attributive).

Of a fabric: having a mottled or variegated colouring. Of a garment, etc.: made of such material. Cf. sense A. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [adjective]

motleyc1380

varianta1400

shadowed1639

mixture1784

corbeau1810

Lovat1895

tone-on-tone1939

1784 European Mag. & London Rev. Nov. 339/2 But amongst the other class of gentlemen are worn dark green, drab, or mixture cloths.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xx. 201 An elderly..man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters.

1897 Daily News 8 Apr. 8/5 The shot mixture canvases.

1930 Daily Tel. 7 Apr. 7/7 A brown mixture tweed suit..created by Schiaparelli.

Compounds

(In sense A. 10.)

mixture control n.

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1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 551/2 Mixture control, an auxiliary control fitted to a carburettor to allow of a variation of mixture strength with altitude of flight. May be manually operated or automatic.

1946 A. Phelps I couldn't care less 126 I was pushing the mixture controls. Another inch and they would have reached the ‘cut-off’ position, the motors would have cut.

1992 Pilot (BNC) June 49/3 Dave's improvements also extend to a vernier throttle and mixture control.

mixture screw n.

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1968 J. Passini Weber Carburettors: Pt. 1 (1973) ii. 17 Turning the mixture screw towards richer will effect a cure for this.

1972 Drive New Year 99/2 The mixture screw is at the base of the carburettor.

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

单词	mixture
释义	mixturen.adj. Brit. /ˈmɪkstʃə/, U.S. /ˈmɪk(st)ʃər/ Forms: late Middle English myxtur, late Middle English– mixture, 1500s mixtur, 1500s myxture, 1600s mizture, 1800s mixter; Scottish pre-1700 mixtiour, pre-1700 mixtour, pre-1700 1700s– mixture, 1800s mixtur, 1800s– mixter, 1900s– mixtur'. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mixture; Latin mixtūra. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French mixture a mixture, a particular mixture or blend (late 12th cent. in Old French as misture , 13th cent. as mixture ; 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman denoting sexual intercourse; 16th cent. in Middle French denoting a medicinal preparation; compare also Old French mesture a mixture, a mixture of grain, maslin (13th cent.)) and their etymon classical Latin mixtūra (also mistūra ; compare later misture n.²) the action of mixing, introduction of other elements, a mixture, compound, interbreeding of animals, in post-classical Latin also sexual intercourse (late 12th cent. in a British source), cloth of mixed fabric or colour (1347 in a British source) < mixtus mixed adj.² + -ūra -ure suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan mestura, Portuguese mistura (13th cent.), Italian mistura (14th cent.), Spanish mistura, mixtura (15th cent.). Compare also Middle High German mixtūre (13th cent.; German Mixtur). N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (mi·kstiŭɹ, -tʃəɹ) /ˈmɪkstjʊə(r)/, /ˈmɪkstʃə(r)/. A. n. I. The action or result of mixing. 1. a. A (material or immaterial) product of mixing; a blend or combination; an aggregate of heterogeneous ingredients. Usually with of. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture mingingOE mungc1175 meddlingc1384 mellaya1400 mixture?a1425 commixtion?a1439 medley1440 brothc1515 mingly1545 mingle1548 maslin1574 miscellane1582 commixture1590 flaumpaump1593 salad1603 miscellany1609 common1619 cento1625 misturea1626 mixtil1654 concrete1656 contemperation1664 ragout1672 crasis1677 alloy1707 mixtible1750 galimatias1762 misc.1851 syllabub1859 mixtry1862 cocktail1868 blend1883 admix1908 mix-up1918 mix1959 meld1973 katogo1994 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 72^v (MED) Medecenez..oweþ to be mitigatiue as is þe mixture of 3 partes of oile rosis & 1 of hony. a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 9 Putte al þat mixture into a strong watir..and þe siluyr wole be dissolued. a1560 W. Kennedy Passioun of Christ in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 47 Of diuers spicis a sindry mixtour. 1582 Bible (Rheims) John xix. 39 Bringing a mixture of myrrhe and aloes. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 30 That braue youth; the splendor of whose eye A wondrous mixture shew'd of grace and maiestie. 1676 J. Glanvill Ess. Pref. sig. a3^v The [seventh] Essay is a mixture of an Idæa, and a disguised History. 1686 A. Behn Montre, or Lover's Watch 212 Neither too white, nor too black; but such a Mixture of the two Colours, as makes it the most agreeable in the World. 1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Jan. (1948) II. 606 There was a mixture of Company. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 435 The agreeable mixture of shades and fountains, in which the whole country naturally abounds. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. viii. 227 His conduct..was..a fatal mixture of weakness and temerity. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 314 A simple mixture of sand and clay. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 199 His mixture of surprise, joy, and anxiety, did not deprive him of the presence of mind which the occasion demanded. 1875 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 28 67 When phenol is gently warmed with phthalic anhydride and sulphuric acid the mixture assumes a brownish yellow colour. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 826 The vessels may be all veins,..capillaries,..or very commonly a mixture of both. 1902 T. M. Lindsay Church & Ministry in Early Centuries vi. 258 The sorry mixture of Paganism and Christianity which [etc.]. 1926 Travel Nov. 44/1 Honduras has a well-attuned mixture of white and Indian, with the Indian beginning to emerge as a separate group. 1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down i. i. 13 The odour in the room suggested a mixture of wet plaster and unwashed feet. 1958 I. Orga Turkish Cooking 114 Take the onion mixture and fill the aubergines with this. 1988 A. Desai Baumgartner's Bombay ii. 27 He went up with a mixture of relief and reluctance. †b. = mixt n. 2. Obsolete. 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 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies To Rdr. In the two following books, is treated of that which concernes the Elements and naturall mixtures, as Mettalls, Plants, Beasts, and what else is remarkable at the Indies. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xiii. 248 We..will passe to the two other mixtures, the which are plants and beasts. 1637 J. Milton Comus 9 Can any mortall mixture of Earths mould Breath such Divine inchanting ravishment? †2. Sexual intercourse, esp. unlawful or promiscuous union. Cf. mix v. 3b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse ymonec950 moneOE meanc1175 manredc1275 swivinga1300 couplec1320 companyc1330 fellowred1340 the service of Venusc1350 miskissinga1387 fellowshipc1390 meddlinga1398 carnal knowinga1400 flesha1400 knowledgea1400 knowledginga1400 japec1400 commoning?c1425 commixtionc1429 itc1440 communicationc1450 couplingc1475 mellingc1480 carnality1483 copulation1483 mixturea1500 Venus act?1507 Venus exercise?1507 Venus play?1507 Venus work?1507 conversation?c1510 flesh-company1522 act?1532 carnal knowledge1532 occupying?1544 congression1546 soil1555 conjunction1567 fucking1568 rem in re1568 commixture1573 coiture1574 shaking of the sheets?1577 cohabitation1579 bedding1589 congress1589 union1598 embrace1599 making-outa1601 rutting1600 noddy1602 poop-noddy1606 conversinga1610 carnal confederacy1610 wapping1610 businessa1612 coition1615 doinga1616 amation1623 commerce1624 hot cocklesa1627 other thing1628 buck1632 act of love1638 commistion1658 subagitation1658 cuntc1664 coit1671 intimacy1676 the last favour1676 quiffing1686 old hat1697 correspondence1698 frigging1708 Moll Peatley1711 coitus1713 sexual intercourse1753 shagging1772 connection1791 intercourse1803 interunion1822 greens1846 tail1846 copula1864 poking1864 fuckeea1866 sex relation1871 wantonizing1884 belly-flopping1893 twatting1893 jelly roll1895 mattress-jig1896 sex1900 screwing1904 jazz1918 zig-zig1918 other1922 booty1926 pigmeat1926 jazzing1927 poontang1927 relations1927 whoopee1928 nookie1930 hump1931 jig-a-jig1932 homework1933 quickie1933 nasty1934 jig-jig1935 crumpet1936 pussy1937 Sir Berkeley1937 pom-pom1945 poon1947 charvering1954 mollocking1959 leg1967 rumpy-pumpy1968 shafting1971 home plate1972 pata-pata1977 bonking1985 legover1985 knobbing1986 rumpo1986 fanny1993 a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 450 Partles of mannes knolege or mixture, Thys holy byrth, thys blessyd natiuite..The holy gost by grace did hyt so be. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore ii. i. 432 Bellafronte [a Courtesan]. For whose true love I would becom pure-honest, Hate the worlds mixtures, and the smiles of gold. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses viii. 117 The Sunne their mixture saw; and came, and told. 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 38 Thee [sc. Melancholy] bright-hair'd Vesta long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore; His daughter she (in Saturns raign, Such mixture was not held a stain). 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xix. 9 Paraphr.) 106 The dread of offending God keeps the man from all impure mixtures. 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. ii. 8 Promiscuous Mixtures had been allow'd of amongst them. 1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 11 I..With monstrous Mixture stain'd my Mother's Bed. 3. The action or an act of adding something as an ingredient; the presence of a heterogeneous element in the composition of something; admixture. Also: an amount or proportion of something added. without mixture: unmixed, pure. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient admixtiona1398 mixture1526 admixture1531 mixtion1557 admistion1565 infusion1626 impregnation1651 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Mi^v Whether..these bothe sayd thynges be togyther in your soule without ony mixture of the contrary. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 161/1 For when the gospell speketh of wyne onely tourned into his precious blode, what man woulde aduenture to make any mixture of water. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lix^v Suche ministers as should preache Gods worde sincerely, without any mixture of mens traditions. 1611 Bible (King James) Rev. xiv. 10 The same shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God, which is powred out without mixture into the cup of his indignation. View more context for this quotation 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 15 His [sc. King Edgar's] Pious Acts were, that he built and prepared seven and forty Monasteries... But now his mixture of Vice marred all. 1670 W. Temple Let. to Dk. Tuscany in Wks. (1731) II. 221 Such is the Composition of human Things, that nothing is pure or without Mixture. 1720 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1906) VII. 186 His Conversation, which was generally facetious, not without a Mixture of Satyr. 1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §1 In order therefore to a clear and distinct Knowledge of things, we must uncloath them of all these Relations and Mixtures, that we may contemplate them naked, and in their own Natures. 1750 G. G. Beekman Let. 29 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 116 Send me..Barbadose Rum if to be had at 26/ a gallon no mixture. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. xix. 129 The soil in which there is a great mixture of moss. 1833 C. Lamb Pop. Fallacies xiii, in Last Ess. Elia 264 The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it. 1845 W. Youatt Dog (1858) vii. 211 His bark..had a slight mixture of the howl, and there was a husky choking noise in the throat. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1110/2 Sulphureus, sulphur-colour; a pale bright-yellow, with a mixture of white. 1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 May Green forage should be ensilated without mixture of any dry substances. 1935 Discovery July 208/1 A minute sample of the bath water is..‘doped’ by the mixture of few drops of ‘O.T.’ (Ortho-Tolidine). 1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 268/2 A very rich white silk painted with flowers or bouquets with foliage, with a light mixture of gold in the pattern. 4. a. The action or process of mixing or of becoming mixed; the fact of being mixed or combined; an instance of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing mingingOE mongling?c1225 mellinga1375 commixtiona1398 mixtiona1398 compounding1398 meddlinga1400 intermelling1413 mashing1440 medlure?a1475 commistion1495 contemperation1502 intermixtion?1520 mixing1525 mixture1530 mixting1532 minglinga1535 mingle1548 temperature1550 contemperament1565 commixture1567 intermingling1576 commixing1583 intermixture1592 mixc1595 minglement1602 interblending1605 contempering1609 intermeddling1611 contemperating1617 mistion1617 immixtion1653 immistion1658 alloy1672 intermixing1690 blendure1701 intermingledom1753 blending1795 comminglement1833 commingling1854 co-mingling1856 immixture1859 interminglement1873 interfuse1887 melding1939 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > causing to become mixed mixture1663 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 420/1 I allaye, as mettals be alayde or as sylver or golde is with their myxture, je attrempe. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. x. 165 Or of the mixture [1592 mixtur] of the elements. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 53 If the Moone should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the yeare blend themselues by disordered and confused mixture. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 62 That mixtures in garments, seedes, and the like, were forbidden by the Law of Moses. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 76 This river..passeth through the Lake Thonitis without mixture of waters by reason of this swiftnesse. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 11 A good Surveyour sheweth his Art..in the fit mixture of Materials, Morter [etc.]. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Mixture, in Matters of Drapery, the Union, or rather Confusion of several Wools of different Colours, not yet spun. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments i. 10 When those Liquors are expell'd out of the Body, which by their Mixture convert the Aliment into an Animal Liquid. 1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion ii. ii. 215 Mixtures of different kinds of food are strongly condemned by almost all writers on dietetics, as injurious to digestion. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. v. 250 From the intimate mixture of air and water we obtain foam. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) at Mixing the Ingredients Five minutes is sufficient for a thorough mixture. 1929 E. C. Thomas Lay Folks' Hist. Liturgy xxii. 130 The mixture of water with the wine was omitted at the offertory. †b. A mixed or intermingled state or condition; the coexistence in such a state of different ingredients or different groups or classes of things. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] commixtion?a1475 temperature1538 mixture1585 commixation1605 commistion1666 mixedness1668 1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke sig. Ciiii The badd is seperated from the obedience and mixture of the good. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlvii. 95 O happie mixture wherein things contrary do so qualifie and correct the one the daunger of the others excesse. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια Pref. 1 A Discourse of the constitution of mans body, as he enioyeth a perfect or apportionated health by a due Mixture of the principles whereof he consisteth; of the Temperament of each part arising from that mixture. †c. Mixed nature, complexity. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] intricatenessa1586 perplexednessa1586 involution1611 mixture1614 complicateness1656 puzzledness1662 complexedness1690 complexation1707 complexness1727 complexity1790 complication1793 complicacy18.. complicatedness1818 complicity1847 involvedness1867 multiplexity1938 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World Pref. sig. A How vnfit, and..vnworthy a choice I..made of my self, to vndertake a worke of this mixture; mine own reason..hath sufficiently resolued me. d. spec. The mixing of or reproduction between different racial groups, lines, breeds, etc., of people or animals; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] mongrelism1598 mixture1634 half-breed1775 half-caste1798 mixed blood1817 Eurasianism1833 mongrelity1859 mulism1861 miscegenation1863 miscegenesis1880 miscegeny1887 métissage1891 half-castism1896 1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck iv. sig. H^v His mixture with our bloud..shall no way interrupt A generall peace. 1676 A. Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata ii. 13 From their mixture with the Celtæ..they were called Celtæ. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vi. 216 We have Reason to think this not impossible, since Mules, and Gimars, the one from the mixture of an Horse, and an Ass, the other from the mixture of a Bull, and a Mare, are so frequent in the World. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xi. 171 The Pamunkies are reduced to about 10 or 12 men, tolerably pure from mixture with other colours. 1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 20 The tribe of people, termed..Cafusos..are known to have sprung originally from a mixture of native Americans with the Negroes imported from Africa. 1845 W. Youatt Dog (1858) iv. 155 The shock-dog is traced by Buffon..to a mixture of the small Danish dog and the pug. 1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Politics ii. 69 The continual mixtures by conquest were just so many experiments in mixing races as are going on in South America now. 1974 J. R. Baker Race iv. 57 He favoured the forcible sterilization of criminals..and the enactment of laws against race-mixture. †e. Association, social integration. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun] ymonec888 i-mennessec1050 meanc1175 ferredc1200 fellowshipa1225 fellowredc1230 sameningc1230 companyc1275 monec1300 conversationc1340 meanness1340 affinity?c1400 companyingc1443 compernagea1500 frequentation?1520 society1529 convoying1543 companionship1548 companyship1548 combining1552 haunt1552 community1570 unition1584 consociation1593 companionry1595 sodality1602 conversinga1610 converse1610 consorting1611 consociety1624 consociating1625 togetherness1656 association1659 consortiona1682 sociality1758 mixture1764 junction1783 consortation1796 conversancy1798 mingling1819 companionage1838 boon companionship1844 mateship1849 1764 J. Smith in F. Chase Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1891) I. 26 He intended..to send his son to obtain his education in mixture with these Indians. II. Specific concrete uses. 5. A preparation for medicinal or similar purposes, consisting of two or more ingredients mixed together; spec. a liquid medicine, as opposed to pills, powder, or other solid forms. the mixture as before: (as a set phrase often found on medicine bottles) medicine to be taken in a similar dose as on a previous occasion; (in extended use) something repeated or already encountered.Bordeaux, Burgundy, cough, freezing mixture, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > medicine of mixed ingredients confectiona1398 mixtiona1398 diatessaronc1400 ingredience1526 mixture1562 diapente1610 ingrediency1639 tetrapharmacon1728 polypharmaceutical1961 1562 W. Bullein Bulwarke of Defence sig. I.ii^v By mixture understande, what sondrie Confections and Electuariis, bee mingled together..to purge choller, etc. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iii. 20 What if this mixture do not worke at all? View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 104 With some mixtures powerfull ore the blood,..He wrought vpon her. View more context for this quotation 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 214 A strong freezing Mixture. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mixture, in a Physical Sense, several Ingredients or Drugs mixt in a Medicine. 1757 B. Franklin Let. 14 Apr. in Papers (1963) VII. 189 I have never seen the chymical Mixtures made, but Salt and Snow I have often mixed myself. 1786 J. Woodforde Diary 18 Aug. (1926) II. 264 She is to take a Wine Glass of the Mixture..every six Hours. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 513 A pint of this mixture was presented to him. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica vii. 316 A syrup, which is frequently added to antispasmodic mixtures. 1834 C. Dickens Let. 3 Sept. (1965) I. 40 I have taken a wine-glass full of ‘the mixture as before’ twice a day, varying the amusement with an occasional pill. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxiv. 327 Be sure she takes that tonic mixture three times a day. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 18 Mixtures are preparations in which one or more medicinal substances are held in suspension in water. Of such nature are emulsions, in which some oily material is suspended by a gummy or an albuminous body. 1904 Longman's Mag. Feb. 304 I took a sip of the horrid mixture. 1920 P. G. Wodehouse Little Warrior viii. 148 There he sat, surrounded by happy, laughing young men, each grasping a glass of the good old mixture-as-before. 1959 Listener 26 Feb. 363/1 What special or new responsibilities do these developments place upon industry? Some will say that it is the mixture as before, but in larger and more frequent doses. 1994 Time 4 July 61/2 He handed Bosscher 20 sleeping pills and a toxic liquid mixture. 6. A variegated or mottled fabric, usually of subdued colouring.See also heather-mixture n. at heather n. Compounds 2, Oxford mixture n. at Oxford n. and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [noun] > multicoloured mellay1341 motley1371 marvel1543 marble1555 verry1603 mixture1682 mixed cloth1696 1682 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 25 The coursest of these clothes either black or mixture. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 367 5 yds Crimson [cloth].., and the rest of fine Mixtures. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A mixture, or mix'd Stuff, is that whose Woof and Warp are of Wools of different Colours dy'd and mix'd before they were spun. 1799 Hull Advertiser 12 Jan. 2/3 Woollen drapery, jeans, quiltings,..plains, mixtures. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 347/2 Mixtures. A term applied to any cloths of variegated colouring, such as Knickerbockers and Tweeds. 1910 Dry Goods Reporter 22 Oct. 21 (advt.) The polo coat, 55 inches long, made in a complete line of mixtures..as well as the regular polo cloth. 7. Music. More fully mixture stop. An organ stop with several ranks of pipes; a compound stop or furniture stop. Cf. compound adj. 2f, furniture n. 8. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > mixture-stops furniture1690 mixture stop1694 1694 B. Smith Specif. for Cathedral Organ in Documents illustr. Hist. St. Paul's Cathedral (1880) 162 Stops in the Great Organ... Cornet. Mixtures. Sesquialtera. 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. i. x. 147 The compound stops are the..Mixture,..and sundry others. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Stop Mixture, or Furniture Stop. The mixture is nearly the same as the sesquialtera, and greatly enriches the instrument. 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 293/2 Sometimes the Mixture stop is considered as part of the Sesquialter. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 192/1 Furniture, the name of one of the mixture stops in an organ. 1976 Gramophone Mar. 1488/1 Imagine a pedal department containing no fewer than 22 stops..with only a five-rank mixture to leaven the lump. 1995 Church Times 16 June 24/5 Ernest Bullock delivers an urgent and authoritative account of the double fugue in the opening movement of Mendelssohn's Third Sonata: here the mixtures are remarkably bright. 8. Chemistry. The product of the mechanical mixing of two or more substances without chemical change (as opposed to a compound). Also mechanical mixture, simple mixture (originally opposed to chemical mixture).In quot. 1766, applied to a suspension in a liquid as opposed to a solution, though the latter would now also be regarded as a type of mixture. Cf. quot. 1875 at sense A. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical admixture or isolation > [noun] > mechanical mixing mixture1766 the world > matter > chemistry > chemical admixture or isolation > [noun] > product of mechanical mixture simple mixture1766 mechanical mixture1887 the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > fluids > [noun] > containing some foreign substance in suspension mixture1766 1766 W. Hamilton in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 150 I think..we may consider the transparency of a heterogeneous fluid..as the criterion of a true solution, and where that is wanting, it is only a mixture. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 184/1 Chemical mixture is attended with many phenomena which are never observed in simple mixtures. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 297 These mixtures are more fusible than either of their constituents. 1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. v. 46 The air is a mixture, and not a chemical compound of constituent gases. 1887 I. Remsen Elem. Chem. (1897) i. 9 Mechanical Mixtures and Chemical Compounds.—In a mixture the substances are unchanged... In a chemical compound the substances which are in combination are completely changed. 1912 J. W. Mellor Mod. Inorg. Chem. xix. 359 Metallic rubidium is prepared by heating an intimate mixture of the carbonate with finely divided carbon. 1961 J. N. Anderson Appl. Dental Materials (ed. 2) vi. 56 One such reaction..involves the breakdown as a solid solution at a definite temperature to produce an intimate mechanical mixture of two solids. 1987 K. A. Robinson Chem. Anal. xvii. 654 If enough information is available, all of the components of spectrally unresolved mixtures can be quantified. 1994 W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire iv. 141 Van Helmont asserts that what we would today call a ‘mechanical mixture’, such as the juxtaposition of sand and grains of salt, is not a compound at all, but a ‘bare commingling.’ 9. A product made up of a blend of ingredients of differing qualities, flavours, etc.; esp. of tea, tobacco, or snuff.Usually with modifying word indicating the variety. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > types of dry tea > mixture of tea leaves mixture1840 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > mixture of snuff mixture1840 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > mixture of tobacco mixture1872 1840 B. E. Hill Pinch—of Snuff 32 Prince's Mixture..is nothing more than plain brown Rappee scented with otto of roses. 1872 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 286 I'm going in to get a canister of smoking mixture to take down with me. 1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 34 ‘This is Grosvenor mixture at eightpence an ounce’, Holmes answered, knocking a little out on his palm. 1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine iii. 145 He..started filling it from a tin of Brinkmann's Standard Mixture. 1966 P. K. Dick in Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Apr. 4/2 He..brought out a yellow, small tin of fine Dean Swift snuff. He inhaled briskly, and the Beau Nash mixture stung his nose. 10. In an internal combustion engine: the vaporized or gaseous fuel mixed with air that enters the combustion chamber to form the explosive charge. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > gaseous, vaporous, or vaporized oxyhydrogen1823 acetylene1860 isobutane1876 albo-carbon1878 mixture1878 producer gas1883 astatki1885 hydrazine1887 oxy-gas1900 oxyacetylene1907 suction gas1907 propane gas1930 oxy-propane1963 oxy-fuel1967 syngas1975 autogas1982 1848 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 6 May 303/1 What is the moving power? The answer will be heard with surprise: the successive explosions of a mixture of gas and air in the boxes at the root of the wings, by which means they will be made to flap about twelve times a minute!] 1878 Sci. Amer. Mar. 195/1 A flame brought in contact with this mixture produces its rapid combustion. 1894 B. Donkin Text-bk. Gas, Oil, & Air Engines i. 6 Sometimes an auxiliary pump is used for compressing the mixture. 1914 W. D. Newton War iii. 19 Brun shut off mixture, and, slowing down, he swung from the motor-cycle. 1943 A. P. Fraas Aircraft Power Plants vi. 107 The power loss resulting from mixtures 10 or 20 per cent leaner than that for best power is not large as compared with the reduction in fuel consumption. 1988 Prix Editions Internat. June 23/1 The McLaren team gave Prost instructions on what mixture settings to run. †11. Printing. A supplement charged by a printer for a piece of work requiring more than the usual range of typefaces (see quot. 1888). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 83 Mixture, an extra charge involved on composition if three or more types are used in a work. 12. Petrol to which has been added a small proportion of oil, used as a combined fuel and lubricant in some two-stroke engines. Also called petroil. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > liquid naphthec1384 naphtha1543 paraffin1851 kerosene1854 octylene1857 shale-oil1857 coal oil1859 gasoline1863 octane1867 octene1868 octyne1877 gas1878 liquid fuel1889 petrol1895 mazut1897 white fuel1901 diesel oil1905 autogas1908 juice1909 sauce1918 power kerosene1919 petroil1921 ethyl1923 lox1923 kero1930 isooctane1932 high-octane1933 hi-octane1933 Calor1936 pool petrol1939 super1939 pool1940 derv1948 platformate1949 mixture1952 diesel1953 Mapp gas1962 gasohol1971 super unleaded1975 synoil1976 synjet1979 biodiesel1986 Orimulsion1987 1927 A. W. Judge Mod. Motor Engineer III. vi. 164 Two-stroke engines using the ‘petroil’ (i.e. petrol and oil mixture) system of lubrication.] 1952 Cyclemotor Man. (‘Motor Cycling’) iii. 20 Use of oil of too thick a grade may result in the mixture being too heavy to pass through the carburetter jet in sufficient quantity. 1960 J. Queenborough Garage & Service Station Handbk. xv. 263 Avery-Hardoll Ltd., market the Petroiler which can deliver a choice of two mixtures; there are tanks for petrol (13³/ ₄ gallons) and two grades of oil (1³/ ₄ gallons each). 1972 J. Stevens Scooter iv. 99 The first scooters had engines calling for a 6% oil content in the mixture. B. adj. (attributive). Of a fabric: having a mottled or variegated colouring. Of a garment, etc.: made of such material. Cf. sense A. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [adjective] motleyc1380 varianta1400 shadowed1639 mixture1784 corbeau1810 Lovat1895 tone-on-tone1939 1784 European Mag. & London Rev. Nov. 339/2 But amongst the other class of gentlemen are worn dark green, drab, or mixture cloths. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xx. 201 An elderly..man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters. 1897 Daily News 8 Apr. 8/5 The shot mixture canvases. 1930 Daily Tel. 7 Apr. 7/7 A brown mixture tweed suit..created by Schiaparelli. Compounds (In sense A. 10.) mixture control n. ΚΠ 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 551/2 Mixture control, an auxiliary control fitted to a carburettor to allow of a variation of mixture strength with altitude of flight. May be manually operated or automatic. 1946 A. Phelps I couldn't care less 126 I was pushing the mixture controls. Another inch and they would have reached the ‘cut-off’ position, the motors would have cut. 1992 Pilot (BNC) June 49/3 Dave's improvements also extend to a vernier throttle and mixture control. mixture screw n. ΚΠ 1968 J. Passini Weber Carburettors: Pt. 1 (1973) ii. 17 Turning the mixture screw towards richer will effect a cure for this. 1972 Drive New Year 99/2 The mixture screw is at the base of the carburettor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mixturev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mixture n. Etymology: < mixture n. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To mix or mingle (with). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (reflexive)] join13.. fellowshipa1382 adjoin1533 to put together1556 piece1579 sort1579 mixture1582 troopa1592 consort1597 identify1718 associate1881 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xvi. 40 They will mixture themselues with you and yours [Port. estar coeles de mestura]. 1604 S. Grahame Passionate Sparke sig. B2 The sharpest wit whose quicke deceiuing still Makes restlesse musing of their minde to try Vaine trifling snares, mixtur'd with Magicks skill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.adj.?a1425v.1582
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