admixture
(ædˈmɪkstjʊə(r))
[f. L. admixt- (see prec.) + -ure, as if ad. L. *admixtūra; cf. mixtūra.]
1. The action or process of mingling one substance with another, or of adding as an ingredient; the fact of being so mingled.
| 1605 Timme Quersitanus iii. 184 Out of hearbes..waters are extracted by simple distillation, without the admixture of any other liquor. 1704 Ray Creation Pref. 8 By the Admixture of that which is false, [they] render that which is true suspicious. 1791 Hamilton Berthollet's Art of Dyeing II. ii. §6. 306 Compound colours..are formed by the admixture of simple ones. 1861 Stanley East. Ch. ii. (1869) 72 It is important to notice this admixture of secular and lay authority. |
2. That which is mixed with anything; an alloy, an alien element.
| 1665 Glanville Scepsis Sci. 71 Natural Theory hath been very much hindered and corrupted by metaphysical admixtures. 1818 Accum Chem. Tests 126 Increasing the admixture of oxymuriate. 1850 Merivale Hist. Rom. Emp. (1865) I. ii. 52 Its original patrician element might in time be completely absorbed in the plebeian admixture. 1878 Green Coal i. 7 The shales contain a large admixture of sand. |