meddle

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F. mêler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. √271. See Mix, and cf. Medley, Mellay.

1. To mix; to mingle. obsolete

More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts.— William Shakespeare

2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; — in a good sense. obsolete Isaac Barrow

Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.— John 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 disturb 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.— John Locke

To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. archaic William Shakespeare

Synonyms: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.

To mix; to mingle. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer

“Wine meddled with gall.”— Wyclif (Matt. xxvii. 34).

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54