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unˈmeddled, ppl. a. [un-1 8.] †1. Unmixed. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 320 Love of Crist is not, but ȝif it be cleer, unmedlid wiþ errours. c1449Pecock Repr. i. x. 49 Euen as grammer and dyuynyte ben ij. dyuerse..kunnyngis, and therfore ben vnmedlid. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. iv. I ij, The wisedome, and vnmedled puritie of Language. 1595Southwell Poems, ‘Times goe by Turnes’, Unmeddled joyes heere to no man befall. 2. Not meddled or interfered with. Also without prep.
1535Coverdale Judith xii. 11 That a woman shulde so laugh a man to scorne, that she were come from him vn⁓medled withall. 1573Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 292 [The corn] to remane unmedlit or disponit upoun be ony. 1602Carew Cornwall 105 [The flood-gate] is opened and closed for sixe dayes in the whole, continuing..other ten dayes vnmedled withall. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 68 Yow are to lette the water in the tubbe stande all night unmedled with. 1690W. Walker Idiomat. Anglo-Lat. 269 He left it as he found it,—untoucht; unmedled withall. 1884Sir C. Bowen in Law Times Rep. LI. 531/1 To have the enjoyment of his goods and chattels unmeddled with by others. 1898Wide World Mag. Oct. 90/2 This might lie long unmeddled with by the common crowd of the deeps. |