intermix, v.
(ɪntəˈmɪks)
Also 7 enter-.
[opp. f. intermixt, taken as pa. pple. of an Eng. vb. repr. L. intermiscēre: see commix, mix.]
1. trans. To mix together, mix intimately, intermingle.
| 1562 Jack Juggler in Hazl. Dodsley II. 110 Therefore intermix honest mirth in such wise That your strength may be refreshed. 1568 Grafton Chron. I. To Rdr., The same is not intermixed with foreine affayres. 1630 Prynne Anti-Armin. 149 They are promiscuously entermixed one with the other. 1667 Milton P.L. viii. 54 Hee, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal Caresses. a 1763 Shenstone Elegies xiii. 36 Fool that I was..To let suspicion intermix a fear. a 1864 Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1879) I. 228 It is not wise to intermix fantastic ideas with the reality. |
2. intr. To be or become mixed together; to mix, blend, or associate intimately.
| 1722 Wollaston Relig. Nat. ix. 214 Here bodily wants and affections..do intermix with human affairs. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Bezoar stone, It's conveyed..into the Duodenum where it intermixes with the chyle. 1846 Joyce Sci. Dial. xvi. 244 Do not the hot and cold water intermix? |
Hence interˈmixing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1690 Wagstaffe Answ. Sherlock's Case Alleg. 13 Through all the Authors Shufflings and Intermixings, we are got to this Point. 1815 Zeluca III. 27 The ordeal to which she delusively put his intermixing proprieties. |