Meddle \Med"dle`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Meddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Meddling}.] [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F. m[^e]ler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. [root]271. See {Mix}, and cf. {Medley}, {Mellay}.] 1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]
More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. --Shak.
2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- in a good sense. [Obs.] --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. [Archaic] --Shak.
Syn: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.
Meddle \Med"dle\, v. t. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
``Wine meddled with gall.'' --Wyclif (Matt. xxvii. 34).
Under the accord signed April 14, the Kremlin agreed to withdraw its soldiers in exchange for a pledge by Pakistan and the United States not to meddle in Afghanistan's affairs.
But sources close to the two say that it was agreed that the best tack for Mrs. Reagan to take was to return with renewed vigor to the drug issue, and to be very careful about appearing to meddle in substantive policy issues.
"The entire spectrum of possible activities and actions to meddle in the affairs of Afghanistan has finally been blocked," he said, in remarks reported by the official Tass news agency and shown on Soviet TV.
They also do not want to live in poverty." Several delegates said the party should not meddle with the economy and that more elements of market forces should be introduced.
"Bourgeois liberals will always try by hook or by crook to meddle in Beijing University" because of its tradition as China's most prestigious school, it warned.
But consumer groups and lawyers who represent plaintiffs in lawsuits for damages say they see no need for the Supreme Court to meddle in the laws of the 50 states.
Up to this point, Sendero has allowed nongovernmental and health-care organizations to continue to operate, as long as they do not "meddle."
The OAU traditionally does not meddle in what are considered the internal affairs of its members, although many African nations take the view that the rebels battling the government in Mozambique are inspired and backed by South Africa.
Signatories ask Bush not to meddle in regional peace efforts and to lift a U.S. trade embargo imposed against the leftist Sandinista government four years ago.
They were an internal matter to be settled by Indonesia and outsiders had no right to meddle, Sutrisno said.