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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Meddle

Med′dle′ (mĕd′d'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Meddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Meddling.] [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F. mêler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. √271. See Mix, and cf. Medley, Mellay.]

1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]

More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. Shak.

2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; — in a good sense. [Obs.] Barrow.

Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. Tyndale.

3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; — often followed by with or in.

Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? 2 Kings xiv. 10.

The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. Locke.

To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [Archaic] Shak.

Syn. — To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.

Med′dle, v. t. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

"Wine meddled with gall." Wyclif (Matt. xxvii. 34).

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.