intermeddle
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman entremedler (= Old French entremesler), from inter- + medler.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛdəl
Verb
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- (obsolete, transitive) To mix, mingle together. [14th-18thc.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XV, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII::
- Ryghte soo entryd he in to the chamber and cam toward the table of syluer / and whanne he came nyghe he felte a brethe that hym thoughte hit was entremedled with fyre whiche smote hym so sore in the vysage that hym thoughte it brente vysage / and there with he felle to the erthe and had no power to aryse
- (obsolete, reflexive) To get mixed up (with). [15th-17thc.]
- (intransitive) To butt in, to interfere in or with. [from 15thc.]
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Book I, Ch.2:
- I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)