intermeddle
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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
"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
Interfere, in-tėr-fēr′, v.i. to come in collision: to intermeddle: to interpose: to act reciprocally—said of waves, rays of light, &c.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The Mediator did not intermeddle with the affairs of the governments of this world; for his kingdom was not of this world.
From War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by David Low Dodge
Have I not a right to intermeddle, being a squire, who has learned the rules of good manners in the school of your worship?
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Thus, the man who intermeddled irregularly with the moveables of a person deceased, was subjected to all the debts of the deceased, without limitation.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
It was a joy too sacred to be intermeddled with.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
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
And it was told the king, but he intermeddled not with her.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
A Lutheran mob intermeddled and committed some excesses; in consequence of which the Jesuit Wolanski, in the name of his order, instituted a lawsuit against the Lutheran magistracy of the city.
From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson
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
Such intermeddling as this taxed the patience of the courting community to its extreme limit, and it assumed a rebellious front.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
And I could only say in reply to this intermeddling but blest spirit: Nothing, my dear friend, absolutely nothing!
From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James
