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
Interfere, in-tėr-fēr′, v.i. to come in collision: to intermeddle: to interpose: to act reciprocally—said of waves, rays of light, &c.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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
"Who desires thee to intermeddle in this matter, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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
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
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
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
I will drop a veil over her grief, which was too deep and sacred to be intermeddled with.
From Away in the Wilderness by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
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
Occasionally a foolish and intermeddling spectator will endeavor to show his brilliancy by experimenting with the animals.
From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. Coup
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