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▪ I. intermeddling, vbl. n.|ɪntəˈmɛdlɪŋ|
Forms: see the verb.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb intermeddle.
†1. Intermingling. Obs.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. margin, The intermedling of the Earth and Sea, and of the commodities thence arising, and contrariwise of the confusion that would follow, if they were separated.
2. Concerning oneself, having to do with; interference.
b. esp. Impertinent interference; meddling.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. i, That parte of iustyce is contayned in intremedlynge, and somtyme is voluntary, somtyme involuntary intermedlynge. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 287 So great an euill, as is the entermedling with the seales of Gods couenant. 1705Hearne Collect. 20 Nov. (O.H.S.) I. 87 The Dutchess of Marlborough's Intermeddling. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 349 To give the duke a discharge for all his intermeddlings with the publick money. 1884H. A. Taine in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 525 Nothing is more destructive than the unrestricted intermeddling of the State.
▪ II. interˈmeddling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That intermeddles.
†1. Intermingling. Obs.
1595[implied in intermeddlingly].
2. Interfering, meddlesome.
1804Ranken Hist. France III. ii. 287 It showed the intermeddling spirit of the Church. 1825Bentham Ration. Rew. 110 All governments have been more or less infected with that intermeddling disposition.
Hence interˈmeddlingly adv., † (in quot.) with intermingling, promiscuously (obs.).
1595Polimanteia (1881) 11 They are all so intermedlingly inwrapped each in other states, that scarse anie knoweth how to escape himselfe. |