commixion

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English

Etymology

From Middle English commixioun, commyxioun.

Noun

commixion (plural commixions)

(archaic) Alternative form of commixtion.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], column 2:
  Were thy commixion, Greeke and Troian ſo,
  That thou could'ſt ſay, this hand is Grecian all,
  And this is Troian: the ſinewes of this Legge,
  All Greeke, and this all Troy: […]
  The First Quarto (1609) has commixtion.

References

“commixion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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