mixtural

English

Etymology

From mixture +‎ -al.

Adjective

mixtural (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to mixture.
   • 1867 November 30, “Sir D. Brewster and The Athenæum”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 2092, London, page 725:

     One of them complained that his “breakfast was served up in a compendious form,” meaning no doubt that his tea came with milk and sugar put in for him. His mixtural rights were invaded!

   • 1872, Edward Rindfleisch, translated by William C. Kloman and F[Francis] T[urquand] Miles, A Text-Book of Pathological Histology: An Introduction to the Study of Pathological Anatomy, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay & Blakiston, page 182:

     Every disturbance in this connection will produce a mixtural change of the blood, a dyscrasia, and in fact by far the greatest number of the anomalies of the blood are diseases of this kind of blood-adulteration.

   • 1940, G. F. Sleggs, “Morphogenetic Pattern Elements According to the Theory of Differential Periodicity”, in Growth: A Journal for Studies of Development and Increase, volume IV, page 44:

     But these figures only show equality for mixtural frequency: they prove nothing as regards time frequency.

   • 1960, Harald A. T. Reiche, Empedocles' Mixture, Eudoxan Astronomy and Aristotle’s Connate Pneuma, Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, page 27:

     Analogical unity, then, is at once the actuality and the proper excellence (areté) of the parts of a mixtural whole, whether political, physical, or even dramatic (Met. A 10, 1076 A 1; N 3, 1090 B 19).

   • 1966, Jack Kevorkian, Beyond Any Kind of God, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, page 18:

     Since the quantity on the right is an instantaneous, irreducible unity, that on the left must also be because of a changeless equality; and the quantity on the left is so expressed as to preclude artificial separability of either constituent in the additive or mixtural sense.

   • 2002, Yulan Liang, King-Ip Lin, Arpad Kelemen, “Adaptive Generalized Estimation Equation with Bayes Classifier for the Job Assignment Problem”, in Ming-Syan Cheng, Philip S. Yu, Bing Liu, editors, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 6th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, May 6-8, 2002, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 444:

     Proportion the mean and variance such that the estimation from the AGEE model can be written as mixtural Gaussian model form: […].

   • 2004, Robert S. Hatten, “Semiotic Grounding in Markedness and Style: Interpreting a Style Type in the Opening of Beethoven’s Ghost Trio, Op. 70, no. 1”, in Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Musical Meaning and Interpretation), Bloomington, Ind., Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, part one (Markedness, Topics, and Tropes), page 24:

     The lyrical “y” theme unfolds above what at first suggests an ongoing dominant pedal, but harmonically the theme does not sound unstable—unlike the agitated dominant pedal points enhancing the (tragic) obsessiveness of the second themes in the first movements of Op. 2, no. 1 (in the relative major, A♭, but with mixtural ♭6̂) and Op. 31, no. 2 (in A minor, the dominant of D minor).

   • 2010, Robert Krieger, editor, Hayes’ Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology, 3rd edition, volume 1, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 612:

     Single or mixtural substrates

   • 2014, Sattar B. Sadkhan Al Maliky, Rana Saad, “Chaos-Based Cryptography for Voice Secure Wireless Communication”, in Sattar B. Sadkhan Al Maliky, Nidaa A. Abbas, editors, Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Cryptology and Information Security (Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics), Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 122:

     Using of mixtural form for time element and masking method: […].

   • 2019 [10th century CE], Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, translated by Sophia Vasalou and James E. Montgomery, edited by Bilal Orfali and Maurice A. Pomerantz, The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 103:

     We said that the soul has an effect on the mixtural balance of the body, just as the humoral mixture has an effect on the soul, and we clarified all of that and provided examples.