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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman entremedler (= Old French entremesler), from inter- + medler.
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intermeddle (third-person singular simple present intermeddles, present participle intermeddling, simple past and past participle intermeddled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To mix, mingle together.
- (obsolete, reflexive) To get mixed up (with).
- (intransitive) To butt in, to interfere in or with.
a. 1627 (date written), Francis , “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. ”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. , London: I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, , published 1629, →OCLC:The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.
1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 2, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book BOOK I:I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.
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