intermell

English

Etymology

From Old French entremeller.

Verb

intermell (third-person singular simple present intermells, present participle intermelling, simple past and past participle intermelled)

1. (archaic) To mix together, intermeddle, intermix.
   • 1509, John Fisher, The Funeral Sermon of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby:

     The lyfe of this wretched world whiche is alway entermelled with moche bitternes.

   • 1866, J. B. Rose, The Metamorphoses of Ovid. [Translated in Verse.]:

     When Fame, / Ubiquitous, to Dejaneira came— / Fame, who her facts with fictions intermells, / And falsifies the very truths she tells, / And whispered her—"Amphitryonides / Loved Iöle."

2. (archaic) To concern oneself with; to interfere.
   • 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie:

     As for the reſt, to ſnort in belly cheere, / To bite, to gnaw, and boldly intermell / With ſacred things, in which thou doſt excell, / Vnforc'd he'le doe.

Anagrams

• tillermen

Scots

Noun

intermell

1. (obsolete) a battle fought in close combat
   • 1535, William Stewart, The Buik of the croniclis of Scotland:

     And syne or that intermell wes done, / The greit battell on euerie syd did jone, / With sic ane reird quhill all the rochis rang, / So thrafullie togidder that tha thrang.

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