intermeddle
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of intermeddle
1350–1400; inter- + meddle; replacing Middle English entremedlen < Anglo-French entremedler, Old French entremesler
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"I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."
From Time Magazine Archive
Is a statute less objection able which authorizes expenditure of Fed eral moneys to induce action in a field in which the United States has no power to intermeddle?
From Time Magazine Archive
With the heart of such a woman doth neither stranger nor friend intermeddle with any profit.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
She was bound, therefore, she regretted to say, not to intermeddle in the business.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various
Intercede and interpose are used in a good sense; intermeddle always in a bad sense, and interfere frequently so.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
And as I sat listening to them, I could not help thinking how much, and how constantly, bells intermeddled with all the feelings and fortunes of humanity.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Yet have I so far acted with moderation that I have never intermeddled too far nor tied myself to one party alone; but have always remained a free man.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
By this time Pizarro had established some communication with the gun-rooms and between decks, and discovered that the English prisoners had not intermeddled in the mutiny, which was confined to the Indians.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper
But "no instance is remembered" in which one sect has intermeddled with another—O no!
From Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by William Gannaway Brownlow
While slavery did not in any way harm New England, she intermeddled in a mood of moral fanaticism.
From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters
Such an arrangement would provide protection for the universities and athletes from intermeddling by third parties, particularly boosters and agents.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2014
Sometimes the Doctrine is shrunk to mean little more than that the U. S. will attempt to discourage European intermeddling in Latin America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling."
From Time Magazine Archive
The uniform success which attended their negotiations in these respects, encouraged them in that intermeddling policy they so often pursued.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
They continued their intermeddling after The Liberal was launched, and doubtless ministered to Byron’s vacillation.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
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