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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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
"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
For she knew the nature of the suffering man–knew that when he came to himself there would be none but God could intermeddle in his heart’s bitterness and loss.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
The neutral Ministers here seem to wish to intermeddle in the proposed pacification.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Jared Sparks
Do not intermeddle with state affairs;—that care is reserved for me, and those in whom I confide.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
Everybody intermeddled, from the good and visionary Considérant down to the cynic Girardin, down to Saisset's ex-aide-de-camp Schœlcher, who had replaced his plan of battle of the 24th March by a plan of conciliation.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
Thus, the man who intermeddled irregularly with the moveables of a person deceased, was subjected to all the debts of the deceased without limitation.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
And it was told the king, but he intermeddled not with her.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
So did the French always, when they intermeddled in the affairs of Germany: they came to aid a party there.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
“You are wrong, Captain Uraga,” interposed he who had intermeddled, addressing himself to the officer.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
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
If any Act of Parliament might be called unconstitutional, uninvited intermeddling with the constitution of a self-governing colony would be so.
From The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan
And if she separate from him for cause, he may be restrained for intermeddling with her earnings.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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