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intermeddle

[in-ter-med-l] / ˌɪn tərˈmɛd l /






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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

Entermet, to intermeddle with, to have do with, 2914.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

For she knew the nature of the suffering man–knew that when he came to himself there would be none but God could intermeddle in his heart’s bitterness and loss.

From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Intercede and interpose are used in a good sense; intermeddle always in a bad sense, and interfere frequently so.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

But "no instance is remembered" in which one sect has intermeddled with another—O no!

From Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by William Gannaway Brownlow

When the English and Dutch intermeddled in the succession of Spain, they appeared as allies to the Emperor, Charles the Sixth.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

So did the French always, when they intermeddled in the affairs of Germany: they came to aid a party there.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Who it could have been that so far intermeddled with his affairs as to write to him, he could not possibly conceive.

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

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

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

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

This, one might imagine, would degenerate into an inquisitorial or intermeddling surveillance; but in practice it never did.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various

We have known the saying just quoted scores of times suffice to stop the unwise and gratuitous intermeddling of such as were disposed to interfere with what did not properly belong to them.

From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad by Various


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