intermingle, v.
(ɪntəˈmɪŋg(ə)l)
Also 6–7 enter-, 6 -mengle.
[f. inter- 1 + mingle v.]
1. trans. To mingle (two or more things) together, so that each is mixed with the other; also, to introduce and mix (an element) with another or among other things.
| c 1470 Henryson Mor. Fab. ii. (Town & C. Mouse) xxx, Swa intermynglit is aduersitie With eirdlie joy. 1555 Eden Decades 143 Let vs nowe entermyngle certeyne smaule thynges amonge these great matters. 1577 T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. 231 In his exhortation he intermingleth threatnings and promises. 1687 A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 221 Houses built of black and white Stones intermingled. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 272 ¶1 Crowds of forlorn Coquets who intermingle themselves with other Ladies. 1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 419 A cause of displacing and intermingling the people. 1842 H. Rogers Ess. I. i. 36 Fuller has intermingled a great deal of gossip and rubbish with his facts. |
2. To intersperse (a thing) with some other element; † to variegate.
| 1553 Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 20 Popingiayes of white colour intermingled with seuen variable coloures. 1649 Roberts Clavis Bibl. 161 The highest Prosperity of Gods people, is (like Chequer-work) intermingled with Crosses and Calamities. 1807 Med. Jrnl. XVII. 423 The vinegar the patient had swallowed, intermingled with the mucus of the stomach. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 371 It will be proper to have hymns and praises of the Gods intermingled with prayers. |
3. intr. To mingle together or with something.
| 1626 Bacon Sylva §270 Visibles doe not intermingle, and confound one another,..but Sounds doe. 1664 Power Exp. Philos. ii. 115 You shall see..the Water and it confusedly to intermingle one with the other. 1784 Cowper Task i. 347 Shadow and sunshine intermingling quick. 1879 Wallace Australas. i. 9 Farther east this flora intermingles with that of Australia and Polynesia. |