[f. L. admixt- (see prec.) + -URE, as if ad. L. *admixtūra; cf. mixtūra.]
1. The action or process of mingling one substance with another, or of adding as an ingredient; the fact of being so mingled.
1605. Timme, Quersitanus, III. 184. Out of hearbes … waters are extracted by simple distillation, without the admixture of any other liquor.
1704. Ray, Creation, Pref. 8. By the Admixture of that which is false, [they] render that which is true suspicious.
1791. Hamilton, Berthollet’s Art of Dyeing, II. II. § 6. 306. Compound colours … are formed by the admixture of simple ones.
1861. Stanley, East. Ch., ii. (1869), 72. It is important to notice this admixture of secular and lay authority.
2. That which is mixed with anything; an alloy, an alien element.
1665. Glanville, Scepsis Sci., 71. Natural Theory hath been very much hindered and corrupted by metaphysical admixtures.
1818. Accum, Chem. Tests, 126. Increasing the admixture of oxymuriate.
1850. Merivale, Hist. Rom. Emp. (1865), I. ii. 52. Its original patrician element might in time be completely absorbed in the plebeian admixture.
1878. Green, Coal, i. 7. The shales contain a large admixture of sand.
