intermixed, intermixt, ppl. a.
(ɪntəˈmɪkst)
[orig. intermixt, ad. L. intermixt-us, pa. pple. of intermiscēre to mix among, intermingle, f. inter between, among + miscēre to mix, mingle. After the formation of the vb. intermix, intermixt was treated as its pa. pple. and gradually spelt intermix'd, intermixed: cf. commixed.]
Mixed together, intimately mixed, intermingled.
(α) In form intermixt: const. as pa. pple. or adj.
| 1555 Eden Decades 87 Lynen intermyxt with golde. 1578 Lyte Dodoens iv. xxx. 487 Of a brownishe colour, intermixt with white. 1643 Milton Divorce ii. x, In respect of returning to her former Husband after an intermixt Marriage. 1755 N. Magens Insurances I. 203 Relating to Naval, mercantile or intermixt Affairs. |
(β) In form intermixed. (In quot. 1630, Of a mixed or intermediate character.)
| 1598 Florio, Intermisto, intermixed..mixt among or betweene. 1630 S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. iii. xvii. §3 (1670) 471 Magistrates are intermixed persons, placed between the Sovereign and private men. 1635 Grammar Warre C v, The intermixed..and secret hidden words were giuen him. |
Hence interˈmixedly, interˈmixtly adv., with intermixture, promiscuously.
| a 1586 Sidney Arcadia iii. (1598) 348 Making..prettie knots, which tyed together the names of Musidorus and Pamela, sometimes entermixedly changing them to Pammidorus and Musimela. 1596 H. Clapham Briefe Bible i. 70 Neither..falling alone, or successiuely to the Iudges, but togither or intermixtly with them. 1672 Newton in Phil. Trans. VII. 5101 Perhaps..the Colours may be also seen intermixedly reflected from them. 1684 H. More Answer 64 Stones..laid confusedly and intermixtly one by another. |