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Meddle v. t. To mix; to mingle. (Obs.) ""Wine meddled with gall.""

Meddle v. i. (past & past part. meddled; pres. part. meddling)

To mix; to mingle. (Obs.) "More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts."

To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; in a good sense. (Obs.) "Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business."

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

To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. (Archaic)

Synonyms: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.

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... neutrals, then it was the armies of the provinces, and now it is Ducrot. As for his famous plan, that has entirely fallen through. It was based, I understand, upon some impossible manoeuvres to the north of the Marne. The members of the Government of National Defence meddle little with the direction of affairs. M. Picard is openly in favour of treating at once. M. Jules Favre is very downcast; he too wishes to treat, but he cannot bring himself to consent to a cession of ...

— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere

... their name from Christian Rosencreutz, their founder; and to answer the latter charge, they repeated that they knew not what thirst was, and had higher pleasures than those of the palate. They did not desire to meddle with the politics or religion of any man or set of men, although they could not help denying the supremacy of the pope, and looking upon him as a tyrant. Many slanders, they said, had been repeated respecting them, the ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

... mighty Wasis," she replied, "and there he sits; and I warn you that if you meddle with him you ...

— The Algonquin Legends of New England • Charles Godfrey Leland

... exists, all animals from the smallest seen by the microscope to the largest gigantic creatures in pairs and fully grown, seems to solve the problem of the egg and the hen, but has long since been refuted by science, so that we need not further meddle with it, and so much the less as thereby the question of the origin of life is not even touched. Let us now make a violent leap from man out into infinite space and back millions of years before the origin of man upon the earth. ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 - Volume 1, Number 7 • Various

... diffused over the whole nation, to render it a country like France; where men, who behave with decency and decorum, may live, or pass through, without the least apprehension or inconvenience on the score of religion; if they do not meddle ...

— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 - Volume 1 (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse

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