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Meddle vs Medial - What's the difference?

meddle | medial |

As a verb meddle

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

As an adjective medial is

central; middle (relating to the middle).

meddle

English

Verb

(meddl)
  • (obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
  • *:he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue.
  • *:
  • *: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
  • *, II.5.1.v:
  • *:Take a ram's head that never meddled with an ewe, cut off at a blow, and the horns only taken away, boil it well, skin and wool together.
  • (senseid)To interfere (in) or (with); to concern oneself with unduly.
  • *Bible, 2 Kings xiv.10:
  • *:Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt?
  • *John Locke
  • *:The civil lawyershave meddled in a matter that belongs not to them.
  • (obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
  • *Tyndale
  • *:Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.
  • :(Barrow)
  • Derived terms

    * meddlement * meddlesome * meddler

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    medial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
  • :
  • In or near the middle; not at either end.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial , or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • (lb) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.
  • :
  • # (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
  • (lb) Closer to the addressee.
  • Antonyms

    * (anatomy) lateral

    Coordinate terms

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    Derived terms

    * medial capital * medially

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
  • Any of various things that occur in the middle.
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