intermeddle
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"I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."
From Time Magazine Archive
Is a statute less objection able which authorizes expenditure of Fed eral moneys to induce action in a field in which the United States has no power to intermeddle?
From Time Magazine Archive
Intercede and interpose are used in a good sense; intermeddle always in a bad sense, and interfere frequently so.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
This Letter the General would have Captain Swan have opened, but he thought it might come from some of the East-India Merchants whose Affairs he would not intermeddle with, and therefore did not open it.
I am aware that the subject is one in which strangers cannot intermeddle; the question when it arises must be settled by every heart individually.
From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Glory's hands were busy in the bread bowl, and her brain kneading its secret thoughts that no one knew or intermeddled with.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
I intermeddled with no one's Affairs; but especially I kept myself clear from those that could not be meddled with without gaining the ill Will of a great many.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
"May all the Gods confound me, if Caesar be not the deepest traitor, or the most miserable idiot, that ever intermeddled with a plot!"
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
While slavery did not in any way harm New England, she intermeddled in a mood of moral fanaticism.
From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters
The princess retired into the country, and knowing that she was surrounded with spies, she passed her time wholly in reading and study, intermeddled in no business, and saw very little company.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
Such an arrangement would provide protection for the universities and athletes from intermeddling by third parties, particularly boosters and agents.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2014
Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes the Doctrine is shrunk to mean little more than that the U. S. will attempt to discourage European intermeddling in Latin America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rather did the end of the Paraguayan war mark the beginning of a policy of systematic abstention from intermeddling with outside matters.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
They continued their intermeddling after The Liberal was launched, and doubtless ministered to Byron’s vacillation.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
