mixtion

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Definition of mixtion in English English dictionary

A compound of drugs; a medicinal concoction

The addition of something as an ingredient; admixture; the presence of a heterogeneous element in a mixture or compound

A chemical compound

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

The act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture

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

{n} the act of mixing, things mixed

A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc

Mixture

used as a mordant for gold leaf

Etymology

() From Middle French mixtion, mixion, and its source, Latin mixtio, from mixtus (“mixed”).