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verb

Mingle v. t. (past & past part. mingled; pres. part. mingling)

1.

To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound. "There was... fire mingled with the hail."

2.

To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. "The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands."

3.

To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. "A mingled, imperfect virtue."

4.

To put together; to join. (Obs.)

5.

To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. "(He) proceeded to mingle another draught."

Mingle v. i.

1.

To become mixed or blended.

2.

To associate (with certain people); as, he's too highfalutin to mingle with working stiffs.

3.

To move (among other people); of people; as, the president left his car to mingle with the crowd; a host at a a party should mingle with his guests.

noun

Mingle n. A mixture. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mingle" Quotes from Famous Books

... march was American, but foreign immigrants soon began to mingle with the caravans. At first these newcomers who heard the far call of the West were nearly all from the British Isles. Indeed so great was the exodus of these farmers that in 1816 the British journals in alarm asked Parliament to check the "ruinous drain of the most useful part ...

— Our Foreigners - A Chronicle of Americans in the Making • Samuel P. Orth

... determinedly sniffing animal, who went to his meals with an appetite that rendered him cordially eulogistic of the place, in spite of certain frank whiffs of sewerage coming off an open deposit on the common to mingle with the brine. Tradition told of a French lady and gentleman entering the town to take lodgings for a month, and that on the morrow they took a boat from the shore, saying in their faint English to a sailor veteran of the coastguard, whom they had consulted about the weather, "It is better zis ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... else is it found? "The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not in me!" Were we to range the vast universe to find its rival, we should return, like the dove to its ark, to the stable-door, and the swaddled babe, there to mingle human voices with the heavenly choir—singing, Glory to ...

— The Angels' Song • Thomas Guthrie

... wise, as well as sharp, she would see that she is standing in her own light; for the man whom she wishes to look upon her, and her only, will soon be a pure negation, a mere machine, an echo of her own jealousy and selfish pride. Now, freedom, or his liberty, would give him the right to mingle and converse with other women; then he would know what his wife was to him, while he would retain himself and give to her his manhood, instead of the mere return of her own self. At present he dare not utter a word to which she does not fully subscribe. She talks of his 'love' for ...

— Dawn • Mrs. Harriet A. Adams

... mingle herself in an entirely characteristic way in these troubles by listening for a brief period to an abstract of her sister's perplexities, then demanding to be made Director-General of the whole affair, refusing to believe this simple step impossible and retiring in great dudgeon to begin a series ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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