Meaning of commistion | Babel Free

Definitions

Commixture.

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Of muche aboundant ſuperfluous bloude contayned in the hole body: oꝛ of muche commiſtion of the melancholy humoꝛ ⁊ the bloude to gether / by the which the bloude is enfyꝛed and chawfed: and ſo diſtendeth openeth and ſetteth abꝛoade the vaynes whiche deſcende to the matrice.”

“And there is ſcarce any Natural Body, wherein the Form⟳ makes ſo ſtrict, durable, and indiſſoluble an Union of the parts it conſiſts of, as that, which, in that Factitious Concrete we call⟳ Glaſs, ariſes from the bare commiſtion of the Corpuſcles of Sand with thoſe Saline ones, wherewith they are colliquated by the violence of the fire: and the like⟳ may be ſaid of the Union of the proper Accidents of Glaſſe with the Matter⟳ of it, and betwixt one another.”

“Chymiſtry handles all Bodies of the three Kingdoms; it acts by motion, and either unites or ſeparates Bodies by Commiſtion or Fire.”

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