Meddle vs Medley - What's the difference?
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(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.
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*: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)
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*:Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym
:(Holland)
A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
:a fruit medley
*Addison
*:this medley of philosophy and war
*W. Walsh
*:Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.
(music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
:They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
(swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
A cloth of mixed colours.
:(Fuller)