immixture

[ ih-miks-cher ]

noun

1. the act of immixing.
2. the state of being immixed; involvement.

Word History and Origins

Origin of immixture¹

1855–60; < Latin immixt ( us ) blended ( immix ) + -ure; mixture

Example Sentences

But that wife of his, and all her funereal music and Kyrie Eleisons, and a thousand things besides, and Leibgeber's inexplicable silence, and his growing ill-health--the continual immixture of all these impure matters into the breeze of his life converted it into a sultry, unnerving sirocco blast--a wind which creates in a man a dry, hot, sickly thirst, which often makes him put that into his breast which soldiers put into their mouths to cure bodily thirst, namely, cold powder and lead.

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The second held up the lost altar that they once called Sapphirus, which was like the changing of the sea and of the sky, and like the immixture of gold and silver.

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His prose, of which he is the first high and various master in English, was shaped and coloured by his Bacon. bent as orator and pleader, by his immixture in affairs, by his speculative brain, and by his use and estimate of Latin.

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The double error of unnecessary stealth and of the immixture of a trading company in political affairs, has vitiated, and in the end defeated, much German policy.

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Still, the immixture of solid color with the oil, which had been commonly used as a varnish for tempera paintings and gilt surfaces, was hitherto unsuggested; and no distinct notice seems to occur of the first occasion of this important step, though in the twelfth century, as above stated, the process is described as frequent both in Italy and England.

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Related Words

• amalgam
• blend
• blending
• synthesis