commixtion

English

Alternative forms

• commixion

Etymology

From Middle English commixtion, from Middle French commixtion, and its source, Latin commixtiōnem, from commiscēre (“to mix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈmɪkst͡ʃən/

Noun

commixtion (countable and uncountable, plural commixtions)

1. (obsolete) The action of mixing or blending together; commingling.
2. (obsolete) The blending (of wines, etc.); garbling.
3. (obsolete) Coition; copulation; sexual intercourse.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 426:

     Of that commixtion they did then beget / This helliſh Dog, that hight the Blatant Beaſt; […]

4. (obsolete) Commixture; a commixed condition or state.
5. (obsolete) A mixture; a compound.
6. (Roman law, Scots law) A method of acquiring property by mixing or blending substances belonging to different proprietors.
7. (Christianity) The putting of a small piece of the host into the chalice during Mass, typifying the reunion of body and soul at the resurrection.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “commixtion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commixtiō.

Noun

commixtion oblique singular, f (oblique plural commixtions, nominative singular commixtion, nominative plural commixtions)

1. commixtion (act of mixing; result of this)