About The Word Meddle
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Meddle
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What's The Definition Of Meddle?
[v] intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!"
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n. {Meddling}.] [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F.
m[^e]ler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. ? See
{Mix}, and cf. {Medley}, {Mellay}.]
1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]
More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts.
--Shak.
2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- ? a
good sense. [Obs.] --Barrow.
Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own
business. --Tyndale.
3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or
impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly
with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub
another's property without permission; -- often followed
by with or in.
Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? --2 Kings xiv.
10.
The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter
that belongs not to them. --Locke.
{To meddle and make}, to intrude one's self into another
person's concerns. [Archaic] --Shak.
Syn: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.
\Med"dle\, v. t. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] --Chaucer. ``Wine meddled with gall.'' --Wyclif (Matt. xxvii. 34). |
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