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† enterˈmete, v. Obs.
Forms: 3–5 enter-, entreme(t)te(n, 3 entermitti, 4–5 entremet, 5 entre-, entromytte. Also 5 intremet, 6 intermete; and see intermit, intromit.
[a. OF. entremetre (mod. entremettre), repr. two distinct Lat. formations, intermittĕre (cf. Sp. entermeter, It. intermettere) to interrupt, discontinue, in late L. also to put (something) between, and intrōmittĕre (cf. Sp. entrometer, It. intromettere) to send or admit within, introduce; f. inter between, intrō within + mittĕre to send. In ME. the word was adopted as refl. and intr. with sense ‘to introduce oneself, meddle’; in early mod. Eng. the sense ‘interpose (something, or oneself)’ was taken up from Fr., but rarely occurs. The verbs intermit, intromit, adapted from the original Lat. forms, were formerly often used in the senses of entremete, of which they may therefore to some extent be regarded as refashioned forms; now, however, they are used only in senses directly due to their Latin etymology.]
1. refl. To concern or occupy oneself, intermeddle, take part; to have dealings or intercourse. Const. in, of, with. Also, to set oneself, undertake to (do something).
a1225Ancr. R. 172 Heo entermeteð hire of þinges wiðuten. a1300Cursor M. 7403 (Cott.) O þe kingrike al gouerning He [Dauid] entir-mett him in na dede [Trin. MS. he entermeted him of no þing in dede]. Ibid. 8759 He [Salomon] can him entermet Þe temple mak. c1400Rom. Rose 5949 She is neither so fool ne nyce, To entremete hir of sich vice. 1406Hoccleve Misrule 440 Right wole eek, that I me entremete. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xxix. (1869) 151 The hand..entermeteth hire to taste and to visite so ofte the tunge. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) iii. ix, To..intermette the with worldly besynes. 1485Malory Arthur xvi. xv, Yf ye entermete [1634 intermit] yow in this I shall slee you. 1490Caxton Eneydos xxiii. 87 All thartes and scyences magicque wherof this lady and prestresse entromytreteth [read entromytteth] herself. c1500Melusine 69 That none of us shall entremete hym to doo that ye spek of. 1517in Turner Sel. Rec. Oxf. 17 All those that entremetyde them of merchantyse should be taxed.
b. intr. for refl.
a1300Floriz & Bl. 204 Ne þer nis non so riche king Þat dorste entermeten of eni such þing. c1300Beket 1253 Lete him iworthe so Than entermitti of holi churche. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1089 Our Lorde God wolde entermete Of no richesse. c1449Pecock Repr. i. 145 To be forbode from entermeting with the Bible. 1467in Eng. Gilds (1870) 404 That non seriaunt name nor entremet of the seid eleccion. c1475Partenay 215 He..loue of al shal haue wher he entermet. 1485Malory Arthur x. xxvi, The kyng..badde hym entermete [1634 intermeet] with hym self and with his wyf and of his knyghtes. 1490Caxton Eneydos 3 Yf ony man wyll enter-mete in redyng of hit. 1491― Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) 1 To entremete to recyte..suche hystoryes. 1494Fabyan vi. clxiv. 158 That nother y⊇ one nor the other shulde intremet with the foresayd londes. 1548Hall Chron. (1809) 88 It longeth not to clerkes to intermete of them.
c. trans. To meddle with, be occupied upon. rare.
1393Gower Conf. I. 161 My thought will entermete him sone. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 38 Of him that entyrmeten the thyngis aboue sayd.
2. To mix, alternate.
c1530in Pol. Rel. & Love Poems (1866) 43 Entirmet this with woo And gladnes.
3. To put (oneself) between.
a1541Wyatt Poems in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 74 The hylles that doth them entermete Twene me, and those shene lightes.
Hence enterˈmeting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1375Sc. Lives Saints, Petrus 311 Four concubynes he..gerte refuse þe entremetynge Forthir till have with Agrippine. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 406 Ac for thine entermetyng here artow forsake. c1400Test. Love iii. (1560) 296 b/2 Thyne entremeting maners into stedfastnesse shullen be chaunged. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. xii. 220 We muste haue manye othere entermetingis with him than the entermeting of remembring oonli. 1583T. Stocker Trag. Hist. Civ. warres II. 15 By the entermeetyng and intercession..of the Lordes here vnder named, etc. |