commixture

Noun

1. The act or state of being mixed together; a union or mingling of constituents; commixtion.
   • Some apprehended a purifying virtue in fire, refining the grosser commixture, and firing out the Æthereall particles so deeply immersed in it. - 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 4:
   • Of these gases the former become less and less noxious in proportion to their commixture with atmospheric air; the latter more and more dangerous, and liable to explosion, in proportion to the same commixture, in...
   • They are the various forms of narrative, the forms in which a story may be told; and while they are many, they are not indeed so very many, though their modifications and their commixtures are infinite. - 2007, Percy...