单词 | meddled |
释义 | meddledadj. Now rare (chiefly poetic). Mixed, combined, intermingled. Cf. melled adj.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] mingedc1275 meddleda1387 melleda1393 blenda1400 entremedly?a1425 yblent1426 commixed?1440 mingleda1475 medleyed1480 mixed1482 intermista1552 intermixed1555 confuse1563 intermingled1586 confused1594 intermeddled1595 blended1621 throughother1626 commingled1648 miscellaneous1698 confluentiala1711 confluent1814 intermixing1815 immixed1855 blent1872 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 397 (MED) Medled [L. mixta] longage encresed after þat þe Empere encresede and was huge. c1390 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 268 To þise also longeþ þis medled lyf, þat is boþe actyf & contemplatyf. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 112 (MED) Vynegre..wirkeþ to boþe, for it is schewed to haue a medled vertue. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 625 Mixtilioque, medylde corne. 1573 T. Cartwright Replye to Answere Whitgifte 103 A medled and mingled estate of the order of the gospell, & the ceremonies of poperie. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 88 A medled company of all the Tribes of Israel. 1736 W. Thompson Epithalamium [An imitation of Spenser] xv. 1 And lo! what medled passions in him move. 1860 A. C. Swinburne Queen-mother ii. i. 49 I love no meddled policy of man's Before her honour. 1927 A. Clarke Son of Learning i. 20 Scholar. What hill untroubled by the day Or meddled dance has blessed this house? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1387 |
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