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Commixture; mingling. [R.] An exact commixtion of the ingredients. Boyle.

The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound. In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy. Bacon.

To mix; to mingle. [R.] Amongst her tears immixing prayers meek. Spenser.

Not mixable. Bp. Wilkins.

Unmixed. [Obs.] How pure and immixed the design is. Boyle.

Freedom from mixture; purity. [R.] W. Montagu.

A state of being unmixed; separateness. Sir T. Browne.

To mix together; to intermingle. In yonder spring of roses, intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton.

In a mixed manner.

A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle.

To mix with too much.

To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]

See Permission.

To mix again or repeatedly.

Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.

A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." [Obs.] Smollett.