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▪ I. meddling, vbl. n.|ˈmɛdlɪŋ|
[f. meddle v. + -ing1]
†1. The action or process of mixing, blending or combining, admixture; the state of being mixed or combined. Obs.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 896 His garnement was..y-wrought with floures, By dyvers medling of coloures. a1400Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. iv, For thenne shall the soule receyue..the full felynge of god in all myghtes of it, wythoute medelynge of ony other affeccyon. 1548–77Vicary Anat. v. (1888) 50 The senewes..with the Lygamentes..in their medling together..are made a Corde or a Tendon.
†b. quasi-concr. The result of the action; a joining, combination, mixture. Obs.
1382Wyclif Matt. ix. 16 Sothely no man sendith ynne a medlynge of rudee, or newe, clothe in to an olde clothe. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 605/45 Pula, medlyng of water and wyne. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 110 Trewly yn thys pele and rynging..a variant medelyng of melody sownyd wyth alle.
†c. Fraudulent mixing (of goods). Obs.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 23 §1 It shuld be well and truly packed, that is to sey, the greate Salmon by it self without medeling of any Grilles..with the same.
†2. Of persons: The action of mingling together in a fight or brawl; also, an instance of this. Obs.
c1450Merlin xiii. 199 And than be-gan the meddelynge amonge hem full crewell and fell. 1481Caxton Godeffroy xix. 49 Yf they wold goo in peas without medlynges and oultrages. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) R v b, There was medlyng on bothe parties, the one to bear awaie, and the other to defend. 1616T. Draxe Bibl. Scholast. 128 It is no medling with short daggers.
†3. Sexual intercourse. Obs.
1388Wyclif Gen. xxx. 42 Whanne the late medlyng [1382 comyng togidere] and the laste conseyuyng weren. 14..Lydg. Life Our Lady xx. v. (MS. Rawl. poet. 140, fol. 31), Eke serteyn briddes called vultures Wiþ oute medelinge [MS. Ashmol. 39 fol. 32 mellyng] conseyue by nature. 1450–1530Myrr our Ladye 326 Que sine, whiche hathe begotte wythoute medlynge of man.
4. The action of taking part; dealing; management. Now only in bad sense: The action of taking part officiously in the affairs of others; interference. Const. with. Also, an instance of this.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 167 And seyn þat þorugh þi medlyng is y-blowe Yowre bothere loue, þere it was erst vnknowe. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 3229 He ys nat wys, That in medlyng ys mor large Than the boundys of hys charge. 1536Act 28 Hen. VIII in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 179 Every such person and persons before any actual or reall possession or medling with the profites,..shall [etc.] a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 150 He [the French king] thought..yet again once to haue a medelyng in Italy. 1676Wiseman Surg. iv. iv. 286 But I, being at that time much indisposed in my health, declined the meddling with it [a Tumour] 1795Burke Th. Scarcity Wks. 1842 II. 257 This most momentous of all meddling on the part of authority; the meddling with the subsistence of the people. 1877Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. x. 112 [He] had been moved to volunteer..by another instance of Becket's dangerous meddling. 1884Athenæum 29 Mar. 400/2 The limits of needless meddling with the text of Sophocles seemed to have been reached.
Proverb.1539Taverner Erasm. Prov. (1545) 57 In litle medlinge lyeth greate ease. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 47 For of little medlyng cometh great reste.
▪ II. meddling, ppl. a.|ˈmɛdlɪŋ|
[f. meddle v. + -ing2.]
That meddles, in the senses of the verb.
a1529Skelton Sp. Parrot 63 To wyse is no vertue, to medlyng, to restless. 1530Palsgr. 318/1 Medlynge, entremetteux. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxxxi. i, Never..have I borne in things to hygh A medling mind. 1629Earle Microcosm. (Arb.) 88 A medling man Is one that has nothing to do with his businesse, and yet no man busier then hee. 1634Milton Comus 846 And ill luck signes That the shrewd medling Elfe delights to make. 1798Wordsw. Tables Turned 26 Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things. 1830Macaulay Ess., Southey (1850) 112 A meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink, and wear. 1859Jephson Brittany v. 57 That meddling personage Mrs. Grundy.
Hence ˈmeddlingly adv.
1755Johnson, Pragmatically, meddlingly; impertinently. |