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Meddle
//ˈmɛd.əl// verb
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.
"[…] why ſhouldeſt thou meddle to thy hurt,[…]?"
- 2 intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly wordnet
- 3 To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. obsolete
"[…]ſtuddy to be quyet / and to medle with youre owne buſynes[…]."
- 4 To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. obsolete
"[H]e cutt a lock of all their heare, / Which medling with their blood & earth, he threw / Into the graue,[…]."
- 5 To have sex. US, intransitive, regional
"But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten / thus was the tree longe of grene colour"
Etymology
From Middle English medlen, from Anglo-Norman medler, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre, derived from Latin misceō (“to mix”).
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