单词 | meddler |
释义 | meddlern.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > causing to become mixed > one who or that which mixes meddlera1450 composer1561 mingler1581 mixer1598 mixeress1830 a1450 (c1395) Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (New Coll. Oxf.) (1850) 66 I holde my pees of gramariens and of medeleris of retorik. c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 335 (MED) Ho-so pleyned to þe prince..Of these mystirmen medlers of wrongis, He was..manaced to þe deth. 2. A person who meddles or interferes in something; a nuisance, a troublemaker. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] > interference or meddling > one who meddlerc1450 intermeddler1601 intermitter1611 interferer1803 meddle-come1857 fiddler1952 c1450 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Harl. 6041) (1960) A. ii. 83 (MED) Medlere [v.r. medeler; c1400 Trin. Cambr. mede is molere of frendis engendrit]. 1462 T. Howes in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 273 There ben many me [d] elers, and they ben best cheryshed whiche wole hurt moche. a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 10535 (MED) He a-voweth to Mahounde and Appollyne Of þis medelere he wole make a fyne. 1522 Bp. J. Clerk Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 314 John Matheo, secretary vnto the said Cardinall, and chief medillar in all affaires her' aboute the Pope. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (iv. 5) They which erst were medlers with euerything, lerne to bee sober & quiet. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (i. 6) 108 What if he will not speake the truth, because he will not be a meddler? 1730 J. Swift in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS Comm.) 28 He is distinguished as an unfortunate meddler in poetry. 1791 T. Paine Common Sense (new ed.) 97 As ye refuse to be the means on one side, ye ought not to be meddlers on the other. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. xiii. 299 And this is the good meddlers get of interfering. 1895 C. R. B. Barrett Surrey iv. 111 The unfortunate clerical meddler in politics. 1940 Amer. Hist. Rev. 45 343 Colonel Nicholas was a meddler and a marplot with a genius for intrigue. 1995 T. Clancy Op-center xlv. 294 Those who weren't empire builders were self-righteous meddlers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1450 |
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