mingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: mingles
form: mingling
form: mingled
form: mingled
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form: mingledst
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form: mingleth
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Etymology: From earlier mingil, mengle, from Middle English menglen, equivalent to ming + -le. Cognate with Dutch mengelen (“to mingle, mix”), German mengen (“to mingle, mix”). More at ming.
Senses: examples: text: [T]here was hayle ãd fyre mẽgled with the hayle, […]
ref: 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Exodus ix:[24], folio XV, verso:
text: Be aware of the smiling enemy, that openly sheatheth his weapon, / But mingleth poison in secret with the sacred salt of hospitality.
ref: 1838, Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Searching for Pride”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated, London: Joseph Rickerby, […], →OCLC, page 69:
text: Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services.
ref: 2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2011:
synonyms: confuse
confound
glosses: To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product.
glosses: To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship.
glosses: To cause or allow to intermarry.
examples: text: [W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, III. Essdras [1 Esdras] viij:[87], folio vij, verso, column 2:
english: [W]e have broken thy statutes and commandments again, and mingled ourselves with the uncleanness of the foreign heathen.
translation: [W]e have broken thy statutes and commandments again, and mingled ourselves with the uncleanness of the foreign heathen.
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text: [T]he holy ſeed haue mingled themſelues with the people of thoſe lands, […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezra 9:2, column 1:
glosses: To intermarry.
examples: text: a mingled, imperfect virtue
ref: a. 1729, John Rogers, The Necessity of Universal Obedience:
glosses: To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
examples: text: The physician […] proceeded to mingle another draught.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Interview”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
examples: text: Some dozen Romanes of vs, and your Lord
(The beſt Feather of our wing) haue mingled ſummes
To buy a Preſent for the Emperor: […]
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], page 375, column 2:
glosses: To put together; to join.
glosses: To become mixed or blended.
examples: text: And allow a bit of a cocktail hour before the meal so that when your guests arrive, you have time to mingle before you step into the kitchen.
ref: 2009, Jane Buckingham, The Modern Girl's Guide to Life:
glosses: To socialize with different people at a social event.
Derived terms: bemingle
commingle
enmingle
immingle
inmingle
intermingle
mingleable
mingledly
mingle-mangle
minglement
mingler
minglesome
minglingly
overmingle
remingle
single and ready to mingle
undermingle
unmingle
unmingled