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Definition of Mixed-blood
1. Noun. A person whose ancestors belonged to two or more races.
Specialized synonyms: Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, Half-caste, Metis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mixed-blood
Literary usage of Mixed-blood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"The act deals with two classes: First, adult mixed-blood Indians, ... The act
thus evidences a legislative judgment that adult mixed-blood Indians are, ..."
2. A Text-book of physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"The blood having been diluted, e. f/. to 100 times its volume, a small quantity
of the diluted (and thoroughly mixed) blood, sufficient to occupy fully the ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"He had endeavored to show what these pure Bates and pure Booth animals were, and
he would now take the mixed blood. What was Lord Exeter's bull Telemachus ..."
4. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"If the genetic law works in mental traits as it does in physical traits possibly
we ought to get multimodal effects in one distribution of mixed blood ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"See "Half Blood"; "Mixed Blood." To be "of the blood" of any person means to be
able to trace descent from some progenitor of that person. ..."
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