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Garbling vs Commixtion - What's the difference?

garbling | commixtion |

As nouns the difference between garbling and commixtion

is that garbling is the act by which something is garbled or confused while commixtion is (obsolete) the action of mixing or blending together; commingling.

As a verb garbling

is .

garbling

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is garbled or confused.
  • * 1992 , J. Sidlow Baxter, Mark These Men: A Unique Look at Selected Men of the Bible (page 55)
  • Well, such cheap criticisms of the Bible are usually the fulsome garblings of ignorance, or the shifty device of prejudice.

    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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