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Mingle-mangle

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A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
Is not it an extraordinary instance of a minglemangle of old Norse Paganism and Christianity? Thor's Mell and Christ's Cross.
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To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of.
So ſhould vve Preachers be true men, Preachers of God's vvay, truly, truly, vvithout regard of perſon; that is, for man's pleaſure corrupting the vvord, or mingle-mangle the vvord vvith man's inven tion and traditions.
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1
A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
Is not it an extraordinary instance of a minglemangle of old Norse Paganism and Christianity? Thor's Mell and Christ's Cross.
Similar
farrago hodgepodge hotchpotch

1
To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of.
So ſhould vve Preachers be true men, Preachers of God's vvay, truly, truly, vvithout regard of perſon; that is, for man's pleaſure corrupting the vvord, or mingle-mangle the vvord vvith man's inven tion and traditions.
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Reduplicated from mingle.

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