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
Send a Minister to Congress," said I, "at the peace, a clever fellow, who understands himself, and will neither set us bad examples, nor intermeddle in our parties.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various
"That is an interior affair belonging to the new organization of Germany," said Benedetti, "in which the emperor has not the slightest wish to intermeddle."
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
He is such an At-all, of so many capacities, that he would excommunicate any man who should have presumed to intermeddle with any one of his provinces.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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
Who it could have been that so far intermeddled with his affairs as to write to him, he could not possibly conceive.
From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest
When the English and Dutch intermeddled in the succession of Spain, they appeared as allies to the Emperor, Charles the Sixth.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
They intermeddled xv ceaselessly, embroiled everything, and as a consequence they obstructed success in the field almost as much as if they had been another Confederate army.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume I by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
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
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
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
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
“I see you so seldom, Roland,” she said, “and we will not have any stranger intermeddling when you are at home.”
From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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
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