commixion

English

Etymology

From Middle English commixioun, commyxioun.

Noun

commixion (plural commixions)

(archaic) Alternative form of commixtion.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], column 2:
  Were thy commixion, Greeke and Troian ſo,
  That thou could'ſt ſay, this hand is Grecian all,
  And this is Troian: the ſinewes of this Legge,
  All Greeke, and this all Troy: […]
  The First Quarto (1609) has commixtion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “commixion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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