commixture

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The volume of rain produced in the Condor’s water cycle is enormous, says Luna, thanks to a unique commixture of altitudes, endemic soils, and solar and wind patterns.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013

Some apprehended a purifying virtue in fire, refining the grosser commixture, and firing out the aethereal particles so deeply immersed in it.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

What is the real effect of all this commixture?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

Professor Child suspects a commixture of the two episodes in the one ballad, or more probably, a grafting of a later ballad on to an earlier one.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank

The Emperor's objection to such commixture of religions was unusual and probably due to zeal for pure Buddhism.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir