immix

American  

[ih-miks] / ɪˈmɪks /

verb (used with object)

immixed, immixt, immixing

1. to mix in; mingle.

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immix British  

/ ɪˈmɪks /

verb

1. archaic (tr) to mix in; commix

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Other Word Forms

• immixture
  noun

Etymology

Origin of immix

First recorded in 1400–50; back formation from Middle English immixt(e) “mixed in,” from Latin immixtus, past participle of immiscēre “to blend,” equivalent to im- “in” + mix- + -tus past participle suffix; see im- ¹, mix

Example Sentences

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immixed immixt

Neither can the joys of our poor bodies be smooth and equal; but on the contrary they must be coarse and harsh, and immixed with much that is displeasing and inflamed.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

As soon as when she riseth, flowing tears Stream down her cheeks, immixed with deadly groans, Whereby her inward sorrow so appears, That as salt tears the cruel cause bemoans.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

To use the language of theologists, the hypostatic union of the two natures must have taken place before his birth, and immixed in the womb of his mother.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

Samson, with these immixed, inevitably Pulled down the same destruction on himself; The vulgar only 'scaped who stood without.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

Samson with these immixed, inevitably Pulled down the same destruction on himself; The vulgar only 'scaped who stood without.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

Samson with these immixt, inevitably Pulld down the same destruction on himself; The vulgar only scap'd who stood without.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John