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单词 entermete
释义

entermetev.

Forms:

α. Middle English antermeote, Middle English antremete, Middle English auntermete, Middle English entermente, Middle English entermet, Middle English entermete, Middle English entermett, Middle English entermitti, Middle English enterrmete, Middle English entirmet, Middle English entirmete, Middle English entormete, Middle English entremeate, Middle English entremet, Middle English entremett, Middle English entremette, Middle English entremetti, Middle English entremitte, Middle English entremytte, Middle English ontermete, Middle English–1500s entermette, Middle English–1500s entremete, 1500s entermeet, 1500s entermyt, 1500s entyrmete, 1500s–1600s entermit.

β. Middle English intremet, 1500s intermate, 1500s–1600s intermete, 1600s intermeet.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French entremettre.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman antremettre, entermetre, entremetter, intremettre, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French entremetre, Anglo-Norman and Middle French entremettre, Old French antremetre (French entremettre ) to concern or occupy oneself, to become involved (11th cent.; frequently in entremettre de ), to interfere, meddle (early 14th cent. or earlier), to place (something) between two other objects (late 14th cent.), to mix (something) with something else (early 15th cent. or earlier) < entre- enter- prefix + metre , mettre to put (see mise n.1). Compare intermit v.2 and the foreign-language forms cited at that entry, and also intromit v., which both show semantic overlap with this word.Compare Old Occitan entremetre (12th cent.), Catalan entremetre (14th cent.), Spanish entremeter , Portuguese entremeter (both 13th cent.). Forms in -mit- , -myt- show remodelling after classical Latin intermittere to leave off, interrupt, in post-classical Latin also to place between (see intermit v.1).
Obsolete.
1.
a. To concern or occupy oneself; to become or get involved; (sometimes) spec. to meddle, interfere. Usually with in, of, with. Also with infinitive: to undertake (to do something specified).
(a) transitive (reflexive).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or busy oneself [verb (reflexive)] > concern or involve oneself
entermete?c1225
intermitc1340
meddlea1375
mella1375
intermeddle1483
intermell1550
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 132 Ha antermeoteð hire of þinges wiðuten.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 152 Þet me ne entremetti to deme þing þet naȝt to him ne belongeþ.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7403 O þe kingrike al gouerning He [sc. David] entir-mett him in na dede [Trin. Cambr. he entermeted him of no þing in dede].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8759 He [sc. Salomon] can him entermet þe temple mak.
c1440 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Thornton) in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 30 To..entermete þe with werldly besynes.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 63 That none of us shall entremete hym to doo that ye spek of.
1517 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 17 All those that entremetyde them of merchantyse should be taxed.
1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xix. f. xlviiiv Not to entermyt theym selfe with suche matters as they be ygnoraunt in.
(b) intransitive in the same sense.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be involved in or have to do with something
entermetec1300
to make (a) market1340
meddlec1390
to do with ——a1400
mell1416
intermeddle1477
intermell1480
to have art or (and) part ina1500
participate1531
to have a finger (also hand) in the pie?1553
tigc1598
get1727
concern1791
involve1843
to mix up1882
tew1891
to screw with ——1973
c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 204 Ne þer nis non so riche king Þat dorste entermeten of eni such þing.
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 1253 Lete him iworthe so Than entermitti of holi churche.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 153 Þe senatoures schulde entremete [?a1475 anon. tr. intromitte] of no dede man his feeldes.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) xi. 408 (MED) Adam,..whan he..entermeted to knowe Þe wisdom and þe witte of god, he was put fram blisse.
1490 W. Caxton in tr. Boke yf Eneydos sig. Aij Yf ony man wyll entermete in redyng of hit.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. Prol. f. i/1 To entremete to recyte..suche hystoryes.
a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 215 He..loue of al shal haue wher he entermet.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxiiii. f. lxxxxiii That nother ye one nor the other shulde intremet wt the fore sayd Londes.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxiiii It longeth not to clerkes to intermete of them.
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iv. ii. 61 Why intermete of what thou hast to done; So leteth me alone.
1682 Lett. Publ. Comm. under Great Seal (Privy Council Scotl.) 5 Their Moveables shall be intremetted with, and Escheated as other Fugitives.
b. transitive. To be concerned or involved with; to meddle with. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > engage in or busy oneself about
fanda1375
entermetea1393
deala1400
makea1400
apply?c1400
to have in occupation?1523
lie1546
entreat1590
to consist in1606
tirea1616
stickle1647
to be in the business of1873
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 66 Mi thought wol entermette him sone.
c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. xiij/2 Of him that entyrmeten the thyngis aboue sayd.
2. transitive. To mix, intersperse (something) with something else.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > alternation > alternate [verb (transitive)]
altern1447
entermetea1500
interchange1561
interpose1602
alternate1605
interplace1650
interleave1802
interleaf1900
a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 72 Entirmet this with woo And gladnes.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. v. xiii. 698 Pooloway is the Paradice of all the rest, entermitting pleasure with profit.
3. transitive (reflexive). To be placed or have a position between things; to interpose.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be interjacent [verb (reflexive)]
entermetea1542
interposea1616
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 80 The hilles that doth them entremete Twene me, and those shining lyghtes.

Derivatives

entermeting n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] > interference or meddling
entermetinga1325
intromeddle1524
interfering1562
meddle1602
intermeddling1611
mirding1614
interference1783
meddlinga1797
intermeddlement1836
meddlement1842
intromission1884
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [adjective] > interfering or meddling
entermetinga1325
meddleousc1450
meddlinga1529
meddlesome1615
interfering1718
intermeddling1804
dabblesome1866
monkey-doodle1886
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xiv. 70 Þat oþer wile þoru malice ant þoru vuele antremeting delaeden of þilke statut þe siwte.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. l. 406 Ac for thine entermetyng, here artow forsake.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 220 We muste haue manye othere entermetingis with him than the entermeting of remembring oonli.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. cccliiiiv/2 Thyne entremetyng maners in to stedfastnesse shullen be chaunged.
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. f.15 By the entermeetyng and intercession..of the Lordes here vnder named, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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