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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of intermeddle.

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Examples

  • Nor do they ever name any of those great personages who have intermeddled in civil affairs, but only to scoff at them and abolish their glory.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • She thought of England rather vaguely as a country where it was always raining, and where — according to John — an assemblage of old fogies, known as the House of Commons, persistently intermeddled in the affairs of the colony.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • But just as little as he intermeddled with the convictions of others would he brook interference with his own.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • The Administrator is not liable unless it can be shewn that she has intermeddled with the Goods and made payment of any Debt.

    John Adams diary 5, 26 May - 25 November 1760 1961

  • Lord Prestonhall seems to have acted with the same unscrupulous spirit which characterizes most of the business transactions of those who intermeddled with the forfeited or disputed estates.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

  • English (whom they principally suspected) were all safe below, and had not intermeddled in this mutiny; and by other particulars they at last discovered that none were concerned in it but Orellana and his people.

    Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced Richard Walter

  • God-fearing self, put on no airs, and intermeddled not in matters beyond her ken, she was universally respected and regretted.

    With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

  • But as man, when he shrinks from passing judgment on another, ever takes the better part; and as even with the best amongst us, the relation of the soul to God is a question which, of all others, should not be intermeddled with, assuredly we must leave

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • As intermeddled > mixed in intendments > intentions (i.e. episodes which have an intentional bearing on the allegory)

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • He intermeddled not with the civil institutions of the day.

    A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery A. Woodward

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