meddle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.

   […] why ſhouldeſt thou meddle to thy hurt,[…]?

2. 2
   verb

   To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.

   […]ſtuddy to be quyet / and to medle with youre owne buſynes[…].

3. 3
   verb

   To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.

   [H]e cutt a lock of all their heare, / Which medling with their blood & earth, he threw / Into the graue,[…].

4. 4
   verb

   To have sex.

   But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten / thus was the tree longe of grene colour.

From Middle English medlen, from Anglo-Norman medler, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre, derived from Latin misceō (“to mix”).

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