Word Meanings - MEDDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. Mix, and cf. Medley, 1. To mix; to mingle. More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. Shak. 2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your

Additional info about word: MEDDLE

misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. Mix, and cf. Medley, 1. To mix; to mingle. More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. Shak. 2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. Tyndale. 3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in. Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt 2 Kings xiv. 10. The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. Locke. To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. Shak. Syn. -- To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEDDLE)

• Interpose
• Introduce
• insert
• intervene
• interfere
• meddle
• intercede
• arbitrate
• mediate

Related words: (words related to MEDDLE)

• INSERT
  To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These
• INTERPOSER
  One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties. Shak.
• INTERVENER
  One who intervenes; especially , a person who assumes a part in a suit between others.
• MEDDLER
  One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
• INTERCEDE
  1. To pass between; to intervene. He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived. Sir M. Hale. 2. To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead
• INTRODUCEMENT
  Introduction.
• MEDDLESOME
  Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.
• INSERTING
  1. A setting in. 2. Something inserted or set in, as lace, etc., in garments.
• INTERFERE
  To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2. (more info) between + OF. ferir to strike, F. férir, fr. L. ferire. 1. To come in collision; to
• INSERTED
  Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle. Gray.
• INTERVENE
  hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. 1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. 2. To occur, fall, or come between, points
• MEDIATENESS
  The state of being mediate.
• MEDIATE
  1. Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Prior. 2. Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition. 3. Gained
• INTERCEDENT
  Passing between; mediating; pleading. -- In`ter*ced"ent*ly, adv.
• ARBITRATE
  or beholder of something, to make a decision, to give judgment, fr. 1. To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case. 2. To decide, or determine generally. South. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The
• INTRODUCE
  1. To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room. 2. To put ; to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe. 3. To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause
• INTERCEDENCE
  The act of interceding; intercession; intervention. Bp. Reynolds.
• INTERFERER
  One who interferes.
• INSERTION
  The point or part by which a muscle or tendon is attached to the part to be moved; -- in contradistinction to its origin. Epigynous insertion , the insertion of stamens upon the ovary. -- Hypogynous insertion , insertion beneath the ovary. (more
• MEDDLE
  misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. Mix, and cf. Medley, 1. To mix; to mingle. More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. Shak. 2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• REINSERT
  To insert again.
• IMMEDIATE
  1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." Shak.
• REMEDIATE
  Remedial. Shak.
• IMMEDIATENESS
  The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes. Bp. Hall.
• CO-MEDDLE
  To mix; to mingle, to temper. Shak.