prep. arch. or dial. Forms: 4–5 atwyxen, -ixen, -ix(e, 5 -yxyn, -exyn, athwyx, 4– atwixt; aphetic ’TWIXT. [f. A- pref. 2 + -twix(t, stem of betwixt; cf. atween. For the variations, see BETWIXT.] Between.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, V. 472. Atwixt noone and prime.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 17. A-twyxyn, atwexyn, atwyxt, Inter.
1464. Edw. IV., in Paston Lett., 493, II. 166. Maters … in debate athwyx the seid John Paston and William Yelverton.
1475. Bk. Noblesse, 25. Trewes … atwixen Charles the vijth … and your predecessour Harry the sext.
1566. Gascoigne, Jocasta (1587), 104. Then I atwixt them both wil throw my selfe.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 383. The yellow sand They kissed atwixt the sea and land.
