Rare or archaic term for the act of committing or entrusting something to someone's care; a commission.
From Latin commistion-, commissio 'a putting together, entrusting.' Archaic variant of commission.
This is essentially an older spelling of 'commission' that survives only in historical texts and legal documents—it shows how English has gradually simplified some of its Latin-derived vocabulary over centuries.
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