``Wine meddled with gall.'' --Wyclif
(Matt. xxvii.
34).
More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts.
--Shak.
2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- ? a
good sense. [Obs.] --Barrow.
Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own
business. --Tyndale.
3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or
impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly
with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub
another's property without permission; -- often followed
by with or in.
Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? --2 Kings xiv.
10.
The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter
that belongs not to them. --Locke.
{To meddle and make}, to intrude one's self into another
person's concerns. [Archaic] --Shak.
Syn: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.