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[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary,which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“mingle”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
Etymology
[edit]From earliermingil,mengle,fromMiddle Englishmenglen,equivalent toming+-le.Cognate withDutchmengen(“to mingle, mix”),Germanmengen(“to mingle, mix”).More atming.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mingle(third-person singular simple presentmingles,present participlemingling,simple past and past participlemingled)
- (transitive)Tointermix;tocombineorjoin,as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product.[1]
- 1530January 27 (Gregorian calendar),W[illiam] T[yndale],transl.,[The Pentateuch](Tyndale Bible), Malborow[Marburg],Hesse:[…]Hans Luft[actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten],→OCLC,Exodusix:[24],folio XV, verso:
- [T]here was hayle ãd fyremẽgledwith the hayle,[…]
- 1838,Martin Farquhar Tupper,“Of Searching for Pride”, inProverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated,London: Joseph Rickerby,[…],→OCLC,page69:
- Beaware of the smiling enemy, that openly sheatheth his weapon, / Butminglethpoison in secret with the sacred salt of hospitality.
- 2006September 11,Sheryl Gay Stolberg,“Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, inThe New York Times[1],New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC,archived fromthe originalon2011-09-26:
- Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services.
- (transitive)To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship.
- To cause or allow to intermarry.
- To intermarry.
- 1535October 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:
- [W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊mengledoꝛſelues wtthe vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.
- [W]e have broken thy statutes and commandments again, andmingledourselves with the uncleanness of the foreign heathen.
- 1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Ezra9:2,column 1:
- [T]he holy ſeed hauemingledthemſelues with the people ofthoſelands,[…]
- (transitive)To deprive of purity by mixture; tocontaminate.[1]
- a.1729,John Rogers,The Necessity of Universal Obedience:
- amingled,imperfect virtue
- (transitive)To make or prepare by mi xing the ingredients of.[1]
- 1850,Nathaniel Hawthorne,“The Interview”, inThe Scarlet Letter, a Romance,Boston, Mass.:Ticknor, Reed, and Fields,→OCLC,page86:
- The physician[…]proceeded tomingleanother draught.
- (transitive,obsolete)To put together; to join.[1]
- 1611April (first recorded performance),William Shakespeare,“The Tragedie of Cymbeline”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene vi],page375,column 2:
- Some dozen Romanes of vs, and your Lord
(The beſt Feather of our wing) hauemingledſummes
To buy a Preſent for the Emperor:[…]
- (intransitive)To become mixed or blended.
- (intransitive)To socialize with different people at a social event.
- 2009,Jane Buckingham,The Modern Girl's Guide to Life:
- And allow a bit of a cocktail hour before the meal so that when your guests arrive, you have time tominglebefore you step into the kitchen.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation ofmingle
infinitive | (to)mingle | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-personsingular | mingle | mingled | |
2nd-personsingular | mingle,minglest† | mingled,mingledst† | |
3rd-personsingular | mingles,mingleth† | mingled | |
plural | mingle | ||
subjunctive | mingle | mingled | |
imperative | mingle | — | |
participles | mingling | mingled |
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]To mix; to intermix; to combine or join
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To associate; to cause or allow to intermarry
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To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate
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Obsolete: to put together, to join
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To make or prepare by mi xing the ingredients of
To become mixed or blended
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Noun
[edit]mingle(pluralmingles)
- (obsolete)Amixture.
- The act of informallymeetingnumerous people in a group
- 2019,Sally Lou Oaks Loveman,Speak: Love Your Story, Your Audience Is Waiting:
- When speakers engage their audiences before they speak with a quickmingleand keep the engagement going throughout the speech, the access point for fear is cut off because there is no silence.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑1.01.11.21.3“mingle”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
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