Definition of "intermeddle"

intermeddle

/ˌɪntəˈmɛd(ə)l/

verb
third-person singular simple present intermeddles, present participle intermeddling, simple past and past participle intermeddled
1. (obsolete, transitive) To mix, mingle together.
2. (obsolete, reflexive) To get mixed up (with).
3. (intransitive) To butt in, to interfere in or with.
  Quotations
  The practice of Spain hath been, […] by war […] and […] by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.
  a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629
  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.
  1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 2, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], book Book I