▪ I. † mixt, n. Obs.
Also 7 mixte.
[ad. L. mixtum neut. of mixtus: see mixed ppl. a. Cf. F. mixte n.]
1. A substance consisting of different elements mixed together; esp. in Old Chem., a compound.
| 1644 Digby Nat. Bodies xxv. §3. 229 The causes of the figures of diuers mixtes, and particularly of some pretious stones. 1665–6 Phil. Trans. I. 326 He discourses of Bread, Wine, Oyle, and the other Mixtes that are made of Plantes. 1680 Boyle Scept. Chem. iii. 172 There may be two sorts of Mixts, whereof the one may not have any of all the same Elements as the other consists of. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Mixt, i.e. a Mixt Body: By which, in Chymistry and Natural Philosophy, is understood a Body not mixt or compounded by Art, but by Nature; such as Minerals, Vegetables, and Animals. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v., Perfect Mixts are the class of vital or animated bodies... Imperfect Mixts are inanimate bodies. 1757 Phil. Trans. L. 163 Where the quantity of the mixt to be assayed was very small. 1805 W. Saunders Min. Waters 462 The blood is not merely a peculiar chemical mixt, but a living part of the animal economy. |
2. In immaterial applications: A product of mixture, a compound.
| 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. ix. (Arb.) 97 Now also haue ye in euery song or ditty concorde by compasse and concorde entertangled and a mixt of both. 1647 R. Gentilis tr. Malvezzi's Chief Events, etc. 162 From that conflict it comes forth a mixt, which is not feare, but consideration. |
▪ II. † mixt, v. Obs.
Also 6 myxte, mixte.
[Inferred from the pa. pple. mixt (see mixed ppl. a.).
In the early 16th c., although mixt was freely used as a pple., there seems to have been much doubt whether the inferred Eng. vb. should have the form mixt or mix. Elyot's Lat. Dict. (1538), s.v. Misceo, has myxe, but the edition of 1548 alters this to myxt.]
= mix v.
| 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 39 b, By mixtynge water with floure, & werkynge it into paste. 1531 Elyot Gov. i. xiii, Mixting serious mater with thynges that were pleasaunt. 1545 T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 123 In the whiche also myxte barly meale. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VI 129 Aduertisyng hym..not to..mixte his safetie and surenesse with the unstablenesse and unsuretie of his newe alye. 1563 Winȝet Cert. Tractates Wks. 1890 II. 60 Bot..gif we sal begin to mixt noueltie with antiquitie. 1609 Bible (Douay) Jer. Argt., In the next eleuen chapters he mixteth consolations and threats. |
Hence † ˈmixting vbl. n.
| 1535 Coverdale 2 Macc. xiv. 3 Alcimus (which had..wilfully defyled himselfe, in the tyme of the myxtinge) [1611 their mingling (with the Gentiles)]. 1570 Dee Math. Pref. *ij, And so is this Arithmetike greately enlarged, by diuerse exhibityng and vse of Compositions and mixtynges. |
▪ III. † mixt, a. Obs. exc. Hist.:
see mixed a.
▪ IV. mixt
var. mixed, pa. tense and pa. pple of mix v.