commistion

English

Etymology

From Middle English commistion, from Latin commistiō.

Noun

commistion (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Commixture.
   • 1540, Eucharius [Rösslin], translated by Richard Jonas, The Byrth of Mankynde […], London: […] T[homas] R[aynalde], folio XXXV, recto:

     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.

   • 1666, Robert Boyle, “Of the Origine of Forms”, in The Origine of Formes and Qualities, (According to the Corpuscular Philosophy,) Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, pages 182–183:

     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.

   • 1732, [Herman] Boerhaave, anonymous translator, Dr. Boerhaave’s Elements of Chymistry, Faithfully Abridg’d from the Late Genuine Edition, Publish’d and Sign’d by Himself at Leyden. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], published 1734, page 24:

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