mixtion

Meanings

1. The act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture.
2. A compound of drugs; a medicinal concoction.
3. A chemical compound.
4. In gilding, a mixture of amber, mastic, and asphalt used as a size or mordant for affixing gold leaf to wood or to distemper pictures.
5. The addition of something as an ingredient; admixture; the presence of a heterogeneous element in a mixture or compound.
6. A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

Etymology

From Middle French mixtion, mixion, and its source, Latin mixtiō, from mixtus (“mixed”).