Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An improper form of commixtion.

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  • noun Commixture.

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  • noun archaic commixture

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See commix.

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Examples

  • Whereupon these conclusions do follow, viz., the commixion of male and female, the procreation of children, the educating of them, and providing for them.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • He makes every creature good one to another, to supply one another’s necessities; and then, notwithstanding of so many different natures and dispositions between elements, and things composed of them, yet all these contrarieties have such a commixion, and are so moderated by supreme art, that they make up jointly one excellent and sweet harmony or beautiful proportion in the world.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

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