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status mixtus

status mixtus noun: a state of armed conflict not at the level of war but involving more hostility than neutrality or peace.

Noun

status mixtus

  1. A state of armed conflict not at the level of war but involving more hostility than neutrality or peace.
    • It now becomes necessary to inquire how, in an international quasi-order which purports to rule out the threat or use of force otherwise than in self-defence, the need for a status mixtus can still arise.1957, Georg Schwarzenberger, International Law: The law of armed conflict, page 52
    • Such noncomprehensive uses of force, commonly denominated "measures short of war," are incompatible, Dr. Schwarzenberger urged, with the states of both peace and war and have "created rules pertaining neither to those of peace or war, but constituting a status mixtus."1994, Myres Smith MacDougal, Florentino P. Feliciano, The International Law of War, →ISBN
  2. (historical) One of the three classes of disease recognized by the Ancient Greek Methodic school of medicine, in which some parts of the body are constricted and others relaxed.
    • But whether explicitly or by implication, the methodist distinction between status laxus, status strictus, and status mixtus is always present.1956, Owsei Temkin, Soranus' Gynecology, →ISBN, page xxxii
    • Methodism, in contrast to these sects, was based on a strict division of causes of symptoms into three conditions of the body: status laxus, in which the body or affected part is lax and wet, leading for example to a flux; status strictus, a constricted and dry state, of which amenorrhea was seen...1993, Sander L. Gilman, Hysteria Beyond Freud, →ISBN, page 40

Examples of status mixtus in a sentence

  • This concept is distinguished from pacific occupation (occupatio pacifica), which is based on the consent of the territorial State, and from the occupation of foreign territory in a status mixtus.2009, Yutaka Arai, The Law of Occupation, →ISBN:
  • Galen, for the status mixtus gives the example of an inflammation of the eye with discharge: the inflammation itself is a case of constriction whereas the discharge indicates relaxation.1996, Plinio Prioreschi, A History of Medicine: Roman medicine, →ISBN, page 101:

Questions about status mixtus

What does status mixtus mean?
Status mixtus means a state of armed conflict not at the level of war but involving more hostility than neutrality or peace.
How do you use status mixtus in a sentence?
This concept is distinguished from pacific occupation (occupatio pacifica), which is based on the consent of the territorial State, and from the occupation of foreign territory in a status mixtus.
What part of speech is status mixtus?
Status mixtus is a noun.

Words near status mixtus in the dictionary

  1. status in quos
  2. status Indian
  3. status Indians
  4. status line
  5. status lines
  6. status mixtus
  7. status offender
  8. status offenders
  9. status offense
  10. status offenses
  11. status quo

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