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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of intermixing or intermingling.
  2. n. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.
  3. n. Admixture; something additional mingled in a mass.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.
  2. n. Admixture; an additional ingredient.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.
  2. n. Admixture; an additional ingredient.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base
  2. n. any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients
  3. n. the act of mixing together

Examples

  • “The intermixture is the more complicated because one cannot attempt to distinguish a race by physical characteristics, by their personal appearance or features as marking descent from one stock.”

    Studies in Literature and History

  • “So strangely were good and evil intermixed in the character of these celebrated brethren; and the intermixture was the secret of their gigantic power.”

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2

  • “In Beaumont and Fletcher's tragedies the comic scenes are rarely so interfused amidst the tragic as to produce a unity of the tragic on the whole, without which the intermixture is a fault.”

    Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • “If, when the eye is impressed with visionary images that last for a while, we look on colored surfaces, an intermixture also takes place; the spectrum is determined to a new colour...”

    The Huffington Post: Brett Baker: February NYC Exhibitions: New York Overflows With Painting

  • “But the intermixture soon absorbed a substantial part of the population, approaching 40 percent by 1803 and likely constituting a national majority by the time of Mexican independence in 1821.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Country of Vast Designs

  • “Building on the practices and stories that survived - or emerged from -- hundreds of years of cultural intermixture, oppression, and natural evolution, social movement leaders constructed a powerful narrative of origin from which to build cultural pride and political power.”

    Nathaniel Loewentheil: Bolivia: One Llama's Great Incan Adventure

  • “Brahmins and Jains go even further in this intermixture of faith and cookery, and shun everything that even looks like red meat: watermelon, tomatoes.”

    Fictionaut: Cardiac

  • “The popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite.”

    Les Miserables

  • “Mr. Dubster then displayed the ingenious intermixture of circles and diamonds projected for the embellishment of his grotto; the first of which were to be formed with cockle-shells, which he meant to colour with blue paint; and the second he proposed shaping with bits of shining black coal.”

    Camilla

  • “The MC Hawking piece was just hysterical, and the Radio 1 intermixture was … breathtaking … hard to believe that rap could be rap and beautiful all at the same time.”

    Radio Clash 65 – alt.alt.alt.rap show

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