meddledadj.
/ˈmɛdld/, U.S. /ˈmɛd(ə)ld/ Now rare (chiefly poetic).
Mixed, combined, intermingled. Cf. melled adj.1 1.
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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).
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