▪ I. mingle, n. Now rare.
(ˈmɪŋg(ə)l)
[f. mingle v.]
The action of mingling, the state of being mingled; mixture. Also concr. a mingled mass, a mixture.
| 1548 Elyot Dict., Aceruatim, on heapes, without ordre, in a mengle [1545 mengley]. 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. v. 59 He was not sad... He was not merrie, Which seem'd to tell them, his remembrance lay In Egypt with his ioy, but betweene both. Oh heauenly mingle! Ibid. iv. viii. 37 Trumpetters With brazen dinne blast you the Citties eare, Make mingle with our ratling Tabourines. 1621 Lady M. Wroth Urania 156 Neither Masque nor properly any one thing, but a mingle of diuers sorts. 1668 Dryden Dram. Poesy Ess. (ed. Ker) I. 61 Scenes admirable in their kind, but of an ill mingle with the rest. 1714 Swift Let. to Ld. Bolingbroke 7 Aug., To represent persons and things without any mingle of my own interest or passions. 1720 T. Boston Fourf. State (1797) 385 In a mingle of many different seeds the expert gardener can distinguish between seed and seed. 1811 Ora & Juliet IV. 76 Her thoughts were a mingle of thankfulness and dread. |
b. Comb., in † mingle-coloured adj.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 62 Her high roofe was mingle-coloured with mounting drops of bloud. 1660 Mercurius Publ. 24–31 May 349 A mingle-coloured wrought Tabby Gown of Deer colour and white. |
▪ II. mingle, v.
(ˈmɪŋg(ə)l)
Forms: 5 myngel, Sc. mengill, 5–6 mengel, mengle, myngle, 6 mengyll, mingel, -il, myngell, 6– mingle.
[Late ME. mengel, frequentative f. meng v.: see -le 3. Cf. MDu., Du. mengelen (which may possibly have suggested the formation), MHG., mod.G. mengeln, of the same meaning.]
1. trans. To mix (things together or one thing with another) so that they become physically united or form a new combination; to combine in a mixture, to blend.
| 1495 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 225 Talowe..mengeled with pytche. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 3 Electrum is a myxture of syluer & golde myngled togyder. 1535 Coverdale Ps. ci. 9, I..mengle my drynke with wepynge. 1687 A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 31 There is a little Bason..and over it a cock of warm water; and..above..another cock, for cold water, so that you may mingle them as you please. 1706 London & Wise Retir'd Gard. I. ii. xii. 167 Take some Mould mingled with soft Hay. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 826 The sulphuret of antimony mingled with its gangue may be subjected to the same mode of assay. a 1852 Webster Wks. (1877) III. 317 The bones of her sons..now lie mingled with the soil of every State from New England to Georgia. |
† b. fig. To put together so as to make one, to ‘pool’. Obs.
| 1611 Shakes. Cymb. i. vi. 186 Some dozen Romanes of vs..haue mingled summes To buy a Present for the Emperor. |
† c. Const. to. Obs. rare.
| 1563 T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 18 To this water also mingle a little dunge. |
d. poet. nonce-use. To put in as an ingredient.
| 1842 Tennyson Vision of Sin iv. xxxvi, Fill the cup, and fill the can! Mingle madness, mingle scorn! |
2. To bring together, intersperse, or associate (material or immaterial things, persons, etc. with or among others), to unite or join in company. Also to mingle up.
| c 1450 tr. De Imitatione iii. lviii. 135 Grace..suffriþ not itself to be menglid with straunge þinges. 1494 Fabyan Chron. i. cxl. 126 They were greatly myngelyd or medelyd w{supt} other nacions. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 217 He myngleth y⊇ trewth with errour & heresy. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 63 The skipping King..Mingled his Royaltie with Carping Fooles. 1598 R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. i. viii. (1622) 14 Besides this, womens quarrels were mingled among. 1630 Prynne God no Impostor 16 Reprobates are mingled with the Elect, as the weedes, the tares are with the corn and grasse. 1726 Swift Gulliver iv. vii, To devour everything that came in their way, whether herbs, roots, berries, the corrupted flesh of animals, or all mingled together. 1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. iv. 151 In an instant the two regiments were mingled at the push of the bayonet. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge iii, A strong tendency to mingle up present circumstances with others which have no manner of connexion with them. 1859 Jephson Brittany i. 2 We must mingle our regrets when our only fare is a gigot. 1875 Lyell Princ. Geol. II. iii. xlvi. 544 Mingled with the rest, the corpses of two men and one woman. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 235 The order of the voice, in which high and low are duly mingled, is called harmony. |
b. refl.
| 14.. How Good Wife taught Dau. 86 Thoill thaim nocht..mengill thame [sc. women] with neuir vith ladry. 1535 Coverdale 1 Esdras viii. 70 Both they and their sonnes haue mengled them selues with the daughters of them. 1702 Echard Eccl. Hist. (1710) 65 He caus'd soldiers..to mingle themselves among the people in private apparel. 1725 De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 258 It is impossible to describe how the sound [of falling water], crossing and interfering, mingled itself. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxix. 384 The renewed chorus..mingling itself sleepily in my dreams with school-boy memories. |
† c. To associate (a person) in common action.
| c 1607 Donne Lett. (1651) 60, I owe you so much of my health,..as I would not mingle you in any occasion of repairing [1839 ed. impairing] it. |
† d. To join (conversation, friendship, etc.) with another person. Also to mingle eyes, look into each other's eyes. Obs.
| 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 156 To flatter Cæsar, would you mingle eyes With one that tyes his points. 1611 ― Wint. T. i. ii. 109 To mingle friendship farre is mingling bloods. Ibid. iv. iv. 471 Oh cursed wretch, That knew'st this was the Prince, and wouldst aduenture To mingle faith with him. 1650 Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples i. 20 The Bishop..being not able to com himself to mingle speech with him. |
e. Card-making. (See quot. 1867.)
| 1837 [see mingling vbl. n.]. 1867 Fry Playing-Card Terms in Philol. Soc. Trans. 57 Mingle, to place papers, or cardboards, intended to be pasted, in such a way, that the paster can readily take up the sheets in the order in which they are to be pasted. |
3. To form or make up by mixing various elements or ingredients, to concoct, compound.
| 1611 Bible Isa. v. 22 Woe unto them that are..men of strength to mingle strong drinke. 1667 Milton P.L. vi. 277 Hence then,..to the place of evil, Hell, Thou and thy wicked crew; there mingle broiles, Ere this avenging Sword begin thy doome. 1871 Blackie Four Phases i. 153 The man whose duty it was to administer the drug mingled in a bowl. |
| absol. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. iii. (1636) 121 He took the Cup of the fruit of the Vine mingling, giving thankes [etc.]. |
† b. To mix up so as to cause confusion in, to confound. Obs.
| 1549 Latimer Ploughers (Arb.) 32 Thys is the marke at the whyche the Deuyll shooteth,..to mingle the institucion of the Loordes supper. 1551 Bible (Matthew) Gen. xi. 7 Let vs..myngle theyr tonge euen there, that one vnderstand not what an other sayeth. |
4. intr. Of things material and immaterial: To unite or combine in some intimate relation; to join together (or with another); to mix, blend.
| 1530 Palsgr. 634/2 Oyle and water wyll never mengyll togyther. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. ii. 132 The Tide of Blood in me,..Now doth it turne, and ebbe backe to the Sea, Where it shall mingle with the state of Floods. 1671 Milton P.R. iv. 453, I heard the rack As Earth and Skie would mingle. 1756–7 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 176 Which discharge themselves into the Topino, and under that name mingle with the Chiascio. 1787 G. White Selborne i. 4 The soil becomes an hungry lean sand, till it mingles with the forest. 1860 Tyndall Glac. ii. App. 427 In nature, mechanical and molecular laws mingle, and create apparent confusion. 1885 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 52 When a wave, Broken and spent, ebbs back, what should it do But mingle with the new wave flowing in, And swell its volume? |
5. Of a person: To mix or join oneself in any kind of association with others; to have intercourse with; to move about among, or in a gathering. Also, to be associated or take part with others in some action or combination.
| 1605 Shakes. Macb. iii. iv. 3 Our selfe will mingle with Society, And play the humble Host. 1683 Temple Mem. Wks. 1731 I. 380 Some of the Train'd Bands..mingled among them. 1685 Otway Windsor Castle 24 Imagine Fate t' have..mingled in the Throng. 1769 Robertson Chas. V, vi. Wks. 1813 VI. 106 He is dead to the world and ought not to mingle in its transactions. 1818 Shelley Homer's Hymn Moon 21 The Son of Saturn with this glorious Power Mingled in love and sleep—to whom she bore Pandeia. c 1820 S. Rogers Italy, Bologna 32 Observed, nor shunned the busy scene of life, But mingled not. 1852 Thackeray Esmond i. x, Nor caring to mingle with the mere pleasures and boyish frolics of the students. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. I. 8 They often mingled in Court society. 1872 Yeats Growth Comm. 138 The Batavians mingled afterwards with the Frisians. 1885 Law Times LXXX. 10/1 He is very anxious to avoid any appearance of mingling in party disputes. |
Add: [5.] Also without const.
| 1901 G. Ade Forty Mod. Fables 48 He got into his Long Suit..and went down to Mingle. 1964 J. Grenfell Opera Interval in Turn Back Clock (1983) ii. 172 Do you want to go out and mingle a little and see who is here. 1991 Advocate 15 Jan. 30/3 Guests are invited to mingle at our weekend hospitality tour. |