Intermeddle vs Interpose - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To mix, mingle together.
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*:Ryghte soo entryd he in to the chamber and cam toward the table of syluer / and whanne he came nyghe he felte a brethe that hym thoughte hit was entremedled with fyre whiche smote hym so sore in the vysage that hym thoughte it brente vysage / and there with he felle to the erthe and had no power to aryse
(obsolete, reflexive) To get mixed up ((with)).
*, II.29:
*:Amongst our other disputation, that of Fatum , hath much entermedled it selfe.
To butt in, to interfere (in) or (with).
*Francis Bacon
*:The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.
*1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Book I, Ch.2:
To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
* Cowper
To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
In intransitive terms the difference between intermeddle and interpose
is that intermeddle is to butt in, to interfere {{term|in}} or {{term|with}} while interpose is to intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.As verbs the difference between intermeddle and interpose
is that intermeddle is to mix, mingle together while interpose is to insert something (or oneself) between other things.intermeddle
English
Verb
(intermeddl)- I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.
Synonyms
* butt in, meddleinterpose
English
Verb
(en-verb)- to interpose a screen between the eye and the light
- Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.
- What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?
- (Milton)
- long hid by interposing hill or wood.