status mixtus

status mixtus

1. A state of armed conflict not at the level of war but involving more hostility than neutrality or peace.
   • 1957, Georg Schwarzenberger, International Law: The law of armed conflict, page 52:

     It now becomes necessary to inquire how, in an international quasi-order which purports to rule out the threat or use of force otherwise than in self-defence, the need for a status mixtus can still arise.

   • 1994, Myres Smith MacDougal, Florentino P. Feliciano, The International Law of War, →ISBN:

     Such noncomprehensive uses of force, commonly denominated "measures short of war," are incompatible, Dr. Schwarzenberger urged, with the states of both peace and war and have "created rules pertaining neither to those of peace or war, but constituting a status mixtus."

   • 2009, Yutaka Arai, The Law of Occupation, →ISBN:

     This concept is distinguished from pacific occupation (occupatio pacifica), which is based on the consent of the territorial State, and from the occupation of foreign territory in a status mixtus.

2. (historical) One of the three classes of disease recognized by the Ancient Greek Methodic school of medicine, in which some parts of the body are constricted and others relaxed.
   • 1956, Owsei Temkin, Soranus' Gynecology, →ISBN, page xxxii:

     But whether explicitly or by implication, the methodist distinction between status laxus, status strictus, and status mixtus is always present.

   • 1993, Sander L. Gilman, Hysteria Beyond Freud, →ISBN, page 40:

     Methodism, in contrast to these sects, was based on a strict division of causes of symptoms into three conditions of the body: status laxus, in which the body or affected part is lax and wet, leading for example to a flux; status strictus, a constricted and dry state, of which amenorrhea was seen as a case in point; and status mixtus, a combination in which some parts of the body are constricted and others lax.

   • 1996, Plinio Prioreschi, A History of Medicine: Roman medicine, →ISBN, page 101:

     Galen, for the status mixtus gives the example of an inflammation of the eye with discharge: the inflammation itself is a case of constriction whereas the discharge indicates relaxation.