mingling

Verb

mingle (third-person singular simple present mingles, present participle mingling, simple past and past participle mingled)

1. (transitive) To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product.
   • [T]here was hayle ãd fyre mẽgled with the hayle, […]1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Exodus...

   Synonyms:

   confuse, confound

2. (transitive) To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship.
3. To cause or allow to intermarry.
4. To intermarry.
   • [W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, III. Essdras [1...
5. (transitive) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
   • a mingled, imperfect virtuea. 1729, John Rogers, The Necessity of Universal Obedience
6. (transitive) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
   • The physician […] proceeded to mingle another draught.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Interview”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 86

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