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

And again he danced a singular commixture of the jig and cotillion, much to the Indian's amazement, for he thought him crazy.

From The Lost Trail by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

Those that are first raised to nobility, are commonly more virtuous, but less innocent, than their descendants; for there is rarely any rising, but by a commixture of good and evil arts.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis

The repaired crenellations, the inserted patches of the walls of the outer circle, sufficiently express this commixture.

From A Little Tour of France by Pennell, Joseph

Therefore it befell that our eager and credulous scholar unlearned quite as much as he learned, acquiring the wisdoms of our time in the crudest and most liberal commixture with its unwisdoms.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various