English

Noun

mixtion ‎(plural mixtions)

1. (archaic) The act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17:

     Nor are there hardly any who either treat of mutation or mixtion of sexes, who have not left some mention of this point [...].

2. (obsolete) A compound of drugs; a medicinal concoction.
3. (obsolete) A chemical compound.
4. (obsolete) In gilding, a mixture of amber, mastic, and asphalt used as a size or mordant for affixing gold leaf to wood or to distemper pictures.
5. (obsolete) The addition of something as an ingredient; admixture; the presence of a heterogeneous element in a mixture or compound.
6. (obsolete) A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

References

• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin mixtiō.

Noun

mixtion f ‎(plural mixtions)

1. mixtion (compound of drugs)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin mixtiō.

Noun

mixtion f ‎(oblique plural mixtions, nominative singular mixtion, nominative plural mixtions)

1. mixtion (compound of drugs)

Synonyms

• commixtion