different between blending vs commixtion

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?nd??/

Verb

blending

1. present participle of blend

Noun

blending (plural blendings)

1. The act or result of something being blended.

   blendings of old and new

English

Etymology

From Middle French commixtion, and its source, Latin commixtionem, from commisc?re (“to mix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m?kst??n/

Noun

commixtion (countable and uncountable, plural commixtions)

1. (obsolete) The action of mixing or blending together; commingling.
2. (obsolete) The blending (of wines, etc.); garbling.
3. (obsolete) coition; copulation; sexual intercourse.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:

     ‘Of that commixtion they did then beget / This hellish Dog, that hight the Blatant Beast […].’

4. (obsolete) commixture; a commixed condition or state.
5. (obsolete) A mixture; a compound.
6. (law) In Roman and Scottish law, a method of acquiring property by mixing or blending substances belonging to different proprietors.
7. (Christianity) The putting of a small piece of the host into the chalice during Mass, typifying the reunion of body and soul at the resurrection.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “commixtion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commixti?.

Noun

commixtion f (oblique plural commixtions, nominative singular commixtion, nominative plural commixtions)

1. commixtion (act of mixing; result of this)