commixture

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(kə-mĭks′chər, kŏ-)

1. The act or process of mixing.

2. The result of mixing; a mixture.

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Commixture

a mixture or compound.

Examples: commixture of good and evil acts, 1607; of intellectual delights, 1643; of virtues and vices, 1601.

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commixture - the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"

mixing, admixture, intermixture, mix, mixture

compounding, combining, combination - the act of combining things to form a new whole

commixture

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Something produced by mixing:

admixture, amalgam, amalgamation, blend, fusion, merger, mix, mixture.

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Those that are first raised to nobility, are commonly more virtuous, but less innocent, than their descendants; for there is rarely any rising, but by a commixture of good and evil arts.

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Several also would have shocked a delicate instinct by an appearance of artificialness indicating that there had been such commixture, and, as it were, adultery, of various vegetable species, that the production was no longer of God's making, but the monstrous offspring of man's depraved fancy, glowing with only an evil mockery of beauty.

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Like the clear airs of industrial capitalism that turn out to be as manufactured as its polluted ones, Rappaccini's flowers have an "appearance of artificialness, indicating that there had been such commixture, and, as it were, adultery of various vegetable species, that the production was no longer of God's making, but the monstrous offspring of man's depraved fancy, glowing with only an evil mockery of beauty" (10:110).

Miasmas in Eden: Atmosphere, History and Narrative in The House of the Seven Gables and "Rappaccini's Daughter"

"Commit the war of "This commixture of After W's note:

Johnson's unacknowledged debt to Thomas Edwards in the 1765 edition of Shakespeare

Though Montaigne refuses to simply equate dreaming with waking, he does take a position more skeptical than that held by conventional early modern natural philosophy when he contends that the commixture of dreams with waking life blurs the distinction between the two states.

"Ne'er was dream so like a waking": the temporality of dreaming and the depiction of doubt in The Winter's Tale

The concepts of 'change', 'development', and 'progress' presuppose situations in which we find ourselves confused by a commixture of the true and the false, of the real and the illusory, and become captive in the ambit of ambiguity.