Unmixed

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 280 b. Myne odour … is as the pure balme vnmixt.

1573.  Tusser, Husb. (1878), 111. Yet may a good huswife … haue mixt and vnmixt at hir pleasure.

1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 292. The Sarmatican kinde of horsses is … very fit for running, vnmixt, hauing a wel set body.

1667.  Milton, P. L., VI. 742. Thy Saints unmixt, and from th’ impure Farr separate.

1709.  Prior, Henry & Emma, 172. Great Heav’n, bestow Our Cup of Love unmix’d.

1753.  Hanway, Trav., I. III. li. 234. If mankind cannot think so abstractedly as a pure effort of unmixed reason implies.

1805.  R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., II. 1124. The Lowland or Fifeshire breed of cattle is rarely met with in an unmixed state.

1889.  S. Walpole, Life Ld. J. Russell, II. 26. Lord John could not derive unmixed comfort from [such] a victory.

  b.  Const. with or † from.

1602.  Shaks., Ham., I. v. 104. Thy Commandment all alone shall liue Within the Booke and Volume of my Braine, Vnmixt with baser matter.

1660.  Sharrock, Vegetables, 29. There grew … wild Oates unmixt from any other weeds.

1725.  Pope, Odyss., IV. 767. Joys ever-young, unmix’d with pain or fear.

1816.  Byron, Prisoner Chillon, 185. But these were horrors—this was woe Unmix’d with such.

1861.  Paley, Æschylus (ed. 2), Supplices, 1054, note. The better part, though not unmixed with evil.

  Hence Unmixedness.

1612.  T. Wilson, Chr. Dich., Puritie sig[nifieth] Vnmixednesse with sinne.

1681.  Dodwell, Sanchoniathon’s Phoenic. Hist., 87. The particular conveniences they enjoyed, above others,… and their unmixedness with the Prophane Vulgar.