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Commixion vs Commixtion - What's the difference?

commixion | commixtion |

As nouns the difference between commixion and commixtion

is that commixion is (archaic) commixture while commixtion is (obsolete) the action of mixing or blending together; commingling.

commixion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) commixture
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

    commixtion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The action of mixing or blending together; commingling.
  • (obsolete) The blending (of wines, etc.); garbling.
  • (obsolete) coition; copulation; sexual intercourse.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
  • *:‘Of that commixtion they did then beget / This hellish Dog, that hight the Blatant Beast […].’
  • (obsolete) commixture; a commixed condition or state.
  • (obsolete) A mixture; a compound.
  • A technical term in Roman and Scottish law denoting a method of acquiring property by mixing or blending substances belonging to different proprietors.
  • The putting of a small piece of the host into the chalice during Mass, typifying the reunion of body and soul at the resurrection.

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