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1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ix. 77 Of angry persons some are..sullen, intractable, unadvisable (a disposition mixed up of pride and melancholy).

1725 J. Glanvill Poems 253 Sweets we extract, and mix up fat Perfumes, To scent our Hair, our Garments, and our Rooms.

1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 41 Nature..Drinks to Man, in her nectareous Cup, Mixt up of Delicates for ev'ry Sense.

1848 Amer. Rev. Oct. 438/2 A singer of comic songs, and pieces mixed up of song and recitative.

1885 Littell's Living Age 19 Dec. 724/1 The company thus thrown together by chance is often mixed up of very different elements.

1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxvii. 317 She always gives me the scrapings out of a pan she's mixed up a plum cake in.

1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel ii. xvi. 157 He mixed up a bucket of whiting, size and water and set about first scrubbing then whitewashing the bloody, tell-tale wall.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 293/2 Ordinary flour and suet minced small, and mixed up with Milk or Water.

1743 J. Isham Observ. Hudsons Bay (1949) 156 Pimmegan as the Natives styles itt, is some of the Ruhiggan fatt and cranberries mixd up togeather.

1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery vi. 64 Then give him two drams of calomel, mixed up with an ounce of diapente, for two nights.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 168/2 Mortar... Its composition varies..according to the various ingredients which may be mixed up with it.

1881 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1880 13 28 To use it as food it is mixed up with water into cakes and baked.

1932 ‘N. Shute’ Lonely Road iv. 67 The parfaits came, and proved to be a tinned peach and ice mixed up together in a cup.

1995 Visit'n (Vermont Folklife Center) 44/2 It was sulphur mixed up with molasses, I believe. They used to say we needed a spring tonic after the winter.

a1806 S. Horsley Serm. (1816) I. iv. 75 Who is he that shall determine in what proportions the attributes of justice and mercy, forbearance and severity, ought to be mixed up in the character of the Supreme Governor of the universe?

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xx. 13 But then she had a devil of a spirit, And sometimes mix'd up fancies with realities.

1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang To Mix it up, to agree secretly how the parties shall make up a tale, or colour a transaction in order to cheat or deceive another party, as in case of a justice-hearing, of a law-suit, or a cross in a boxing-match for money.

1850 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter (ed. 2) 403 One virtue was mixt up with a thousand crimes.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 188 His manner of mixing up real and imaginary persons.

1912 J. Conrad Personal Record i. 43 The events..are inextricably mixed up with the details of the proper management of a waterside warehouse.

1950 R. Macaulay World my Wilderness xxviii. 20 They were for ever mixing up past and present consorts, with no embarrassment in the world.

1988 A. Tyler Breathing Lessons i. i. 8 How could you mix up the brake with the gas pedal?

1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. xi. 259 It is not fit that the heiress of Arnwood, should mix herself up with foresters' daughters.

1882 E. Dicey Victor Emanuel v. 53 An Italian exile, who in his hot youth had been mixed up, very much against the grain, in an abortive plot for the assassination of the late King.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xl. 185 I wouldn't mix myself up with any foreigners.

1934 D. Hammett Thin Man ix. 42 I didn't want to get mixed up with these people.

1994 Independent on Sunday 14 Aug. 21/5 We have had to live from week to week and got mixed up with loan sharks at one stage.

1862 Queen Victoria Let. 15 Jan. in Dearest Mama (1968) 41 I only want your advice—not to get you further mixed up.

1966 A. Christie Third Girl xiv. 155 Reflection had never been Mrs Oliver's strong point. ‘You always mix me up,’ she complained.

1990 S. Gates Lock (BNC) 101 You're just trying to get me confused, aren't you? Trying to mix me up!

1898 Daily News 24 Nov. 7/3 The men were in the centre of the ring mixing up in the liveliest manner.

1900 A. H. Lewis Sandburrs 207 My only idee at d'time is..to mix it up wit' d'drunken bum who's soaked Sal.

1900 A. Conan Doyle Green Flag 165 This round must decide it. ‘Mix it oop, lad; mix it oop!’ the iron-men whooped.

1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 359 They're goin' to mix it up. The little un'll win out, see if she don't. My eye! dames is allus fightin'.

1941 Time 8 Dec. 22/1 The tanks..face the approaching column... Then they begin to mix it up.

1993 R. Limbaugh See, I told you So iii. 32 I still do parody and satire and I love to mix it up with people on substantive issues, but I never try to be cruel.