different between salmagundi vs commixture

English

Alternative forms

• salmagundy
• solomongundy
• Solomon Gundy

Etymology

From French salmigondis (“seasoned salt meats”), from Middle French salmigondin, probably related to Middle French salomene (“hodgepodge of meats or fish cooked in wine”), from Old French salemine.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sal.m????n.di/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sæl.m????n.di/

Noun

salmagundi (plural salmagundis)

1. A food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
2. Hence, any mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 544:

     Partly too it reflected the nature of Revolutionary politics throughout the 1790s, which was invariably a kind of inspired bricolage, which involved yoking together a wide range of pre-existent elements into an unanticipated and constantly changing salmagundi of political forms.

Synonyms

• (mixture of various ingredients): miscellany, olio, potpourri

References

• salmagundi in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From con- +? mixture.

Noun

commixture (countable and uncountable, plural commixtures)

1. The act or state of being mixed together; a union or mingling of constituents; commixtion.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, 2005, page 4,

     Some apprehended a purifying virtue in fire, refining the grosser commixture, and firing out the Æthereall particles so deeply immersed in it.

   • 1816, On Lighting Coal Mines, Thomas Thomson (editor), Annals of Philosophy, Volume 7: January—June 1816, page 118,

     Of these gases the former become less and less noxious in proportion to their commixture with atmospheric air; the latter more and more dangerous, and liable to explosion, in proportion to the same commixture, in quantities limited to six parts and 12 parts of atmospheric air. No commixture of these different noxious gases will explode.

   • 2007, Percy Lubbock, The Craft of Fiction, page 20,

     They are the various forms of narrative, the forms in which a story may be told; and while they are many, they are not indeed so very many, though their modifications and their commixtures are infinite.

Latin

Participle

commixt?re

1. vocative masculine singular of commixt?rus