† perˈmixed, perˈmixt, ppl. a. Obs.
[orig. ad. L. permixt-us, pa. pple. of permiscēre to mix thoroughly, intermingle (f. per- 2 + miscēre to mix); afterwards treated as pa. pple. of permix: cf. commixed, mixed.]
Thoroughly mixed, intermixed, intermingled. (Const. as pple. or adj.)
| c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 812 Blacke, bay, and permyxt gray. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 149 In Albania, where thei did abyde afterwarde..permixte with Britones. 1502 W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione ii. xi. 190 The pure loue of Iesu nat permixed with any inordinauns of fauour or affeccion. 1659 Stanley Hist. Philos. xiii. (1701) 565/2 A leaf of Colewort, whose small Pores are pester'd with little Bodies variously permixt. 1660 tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis i. ii. 15 When water is permixed with vinegar. |