different between copulation vs commixtion

English

Etymology

From Middle French copulation, from Latin copulo (“I join, unite, connect”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?p.j??le?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

copulation (countable and uncountable, plural copulations)

1. (countable) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
2. (uncountable) Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals; coitus; coition.
   • ca.1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII:

     Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:copulation

Translations

Anagrams

• poculation

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)