单词 | unmixable |
释义 | unmixableadj. That cannot be mixed, immiscible; incompatible. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > not combining or mixing > not combined or mixed > incapable of being combined or mixed inconfusible1565 incommiscible1620 immixable1648 unmingleable1660 immiscible1671 unmixable1673 unsociable1677 uncompoundable1691 unfusible1758 unmiscible1775 uncombinable1791 incoalescible1821 infusile1825 unamalgamable1827 1673 E. Coles Pract. Disc. God's Sovereignty vi. 70 This dangerous daubing with things unmixable, our holy Apostle could not brook. 1721 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher (new ed.) III. 941 The Experiment therefore which we made some Years ago for this Purpose, may be perform'd with all unmixable Liquors. 1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn II. 142 Two things so very unmixable in their Natures as Truth and Falsehood. 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 398/1 The rich are divided into numberless unmixable classes. 1844 W. H. Mill Serm. Tempt. Christ Notes 161 Therefore things in themselves unmixable are mingled. 1914 E. E. Earp Rural Church Movement viii. 120 The useful and yet unmixable elements of Protestant Christianity. 1964 L. Woolf Beginning Again i. 72 The atmosphere of this luncheon party..was compounded of two opposite, antipathetic, and entirely unmixable elements. 2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Nov. vii. 15/1 His refreshing prose, like his on-air persona, combines seemingly unmixable ingredients. Derivatives unˈmixableness n. rare ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > making or becoming unmixed > incapacity of being mixed or combined incommiscibility1646 incoibility1671 immiscibility1807 unmixableness1843 uncombiningness1850 1843 R. W. Emerson Let. 29 Apr. in Corr. Emerson & Carlyle (1964) 342 Health is always private & original, & its essence is in its unmixableness. 1881 W. D. Whitney Mixt. in Lang. 7 The unmixableness of grammar. 1962 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 27 270/1 The reader..eventually loses any lingering traces of a sense of separateness, of unmixableness among the societies of the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1673 |
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