commixtion

Meaning

Noun

• The action of mixing or blending together; commingling.
• The blending (of wines, etc.); garbling.
• coition; copulation; sexual intercourse.
• commixture; a commixed condition or state.
• A mixture; a compound.
• In Roman and Scottish law, a method of acquiring property by mixing or blending substances belonging to different proprietors.
• The putting of a small piece of the host into the chalice during Mass, typifying the reunion of body and soul at the resurrection.

Origin

• From Middle French commixtion, and its source, Latin commixtionem, from commiscēre.