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
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
I have no design to intermeddle with the government, or to disturb the tranquillity of the United States, nor of its territories, or any part of them.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt
Though the commons did not relax in their importunities for the redress of general grievances, they did not venture to intermeddle as before with the conduct of administration.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
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
Nay, in those ages of the world, it was believed that spirits intermeddled in the affairs of mankind; and, throughout the Old Testament, I do not find any thing that in the least contradicts is.
From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Daniel Defoe
Glory's hands were busy in the bread bowl, and her brain kneading its secret thoughts that no one knew or intermeddled with.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
Nor do they ever name any of those great personages who have intermeddled in civil affairs, but only to scoff at them and abolish their glory.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
But just as little as he intermeddled with the convictions of others would he brook interference with his own.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
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
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
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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