† promiscualadj.
Obsolete. rare.
= promiscuous adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective]
confusec1384
yblent1426
intermellé1487
farraginary1538
puddled1559
confused1576
promiscuous1579
pell-mell1584
ravelleda1586
mingle-mangle1589
rumblingc1598
skimble-skamble1598
huddle1601
plundered1601
promiscual1602
jumbled1611
promiscous1656
bedevilled1755
helter-skelter1785
muddly1829
hugger-mugger1840
wildered1853
pied1870
deurmekaar1871
mixed-up1888
screwed-up1942
snafu1942
scrambled1951
untogether1969
the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous > incongruously mixed
medleya1400
intermellé1487
farraginary1538
hotchpotch1556
promiscuous1579
hotchpot1588
pied1594
motley1601
hodge-podge1602
promiscual1602
macaronic1611
farraginous1616
throughother1626
mishmash1652
promiscous1656
hotchpotchly1674
hodge-podging1772
hashy1781
mixty-maxty1786
motleyed1798
gallimaufrical1836
odd-and-end1836
chow-chow1844
speckled1845
ragbag1882
disherent1890
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > promiscuous > specifically of action
promiscual1602
1602 R. Parsons Manifestation Great Folly ii. f. 22 Which promiscual sitting vsed by religious men and others liuing in community we haue shewed..in our Apologie.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iii. xxv. 143 Yet worshipping those promiscuall gods, they cannot..cleare them-selues of this question of Concord and Discord.
1616 P. Hay Vision Balaams Asse x. 178 I will speake two or three words touching the promiscual and common vse of the names Episcopus, and Presbyter.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adverb]
pelly mellya1500
ribble-rabble?a1525
confusely1540
huddlea1555
confusedly1566
pell-mell1579
tag-rag1582
helter-skelter1593
promiscuously1593
pell-mell1596
confusively1599
mel-pella1600
promiscually1602
squimble-squamble1611
promiscuous1616
clutteringly1624
promiscously1635
perplexly1670
skimble-skamble1775
skimper-scamper1778
hodge-podge1848
hugger-mugger1880
rumble-jumble1887
muddledly1914
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb]
indifferentlyc1374
indistinctlyc1420
confusedly?1531
undistinctly1548
confusely?c1550
without respect?c1550
without choice1576
intermixedlya1586
unrespectively1586
pell-mell1587
promiscuously1593
mixedly1597
indiscriminate1598
promiscually1602
swoopstake1603
promiscuous1616
irrespectively1624
muddily1648
indiscriminately1652
humdrum1660
indiscriminally1665
undistinguishingly1665
indeterminatelya1676
indiscriminatively1684
indistinguishably1689
indiscretely1698
indistinctively1699
undiscerningly1707
uncritically1763
indiscriminatingly1824
undiscriminatingly1894
unfastidiously1929
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 135 They proceeded..to draw great persons, Nobles, Honours and Graces promiscually vnto them.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. xxvi. 233 This he giueth promiscually to good and bad.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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