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Word Meanings - INTERMEDDLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of improperly interfering. Burke.

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  • MEDDLING
    Meddlesome. Macaulay.
  • OFFICIOUS
    1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than as officious and venial one. Note on Gen. xxvii. . 2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
  • INTERMEDDLE
    To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
  • PUSHPIN
    A child's game played with pins. L. Estrange.
  • MEDDLER
    One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
  • INTRUSIVE
    Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome. Intrusive rocks , rocks which have been forced, while in a plastic or melted state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks. The term
  • FORWARDLY
    Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
  • MEDDLESOME
    Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.
  • PUSH BUTTON
    A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell.
  • FORWARD
    An agreement; a covenant; a promise. Tell us a tale anon, as forward is. Chaucer.
  • INTERFERE
    To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2. (more info) between + OF. ferir to strike, F. férir, fr. L. ferire. 1. To come in collision; to
  • FORWARDNESS
    The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel. 2. An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson. 3.
  • MEDDLINGLY
    In a meddling manner.
  • PUSH
    A pustule; a pimple. Bacon.
  • FORWARDER
    One employed in forwarding. (more info) 1. One who forwards or promotes; a promoter. Udall. 2. One who sends forward anything; one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.
  • FORWARDING
    The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher. (more info) 1. The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.
  • INTERFERER
    One who interferes.
  • PUSHING
    Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive. -- Push"ing*ly, adv.
  • FORWARD; FORWARDS
    Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward. (more info) -weardes; akin to G. vorwärts. The s is properly a genitive ending.
  • INTERMEDDLING
    The act of improperly interfering. Burke.
  • OVERFORWARD
    Forward to excess; too forward. -- O"ver*for"ward*ness, n.
  • STRAIGHTFORWARD
    Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv.
  • OVERMEDDLING
    Excessive interference. "Justly shent for their overmeddling." Fuller.
  • OVEROFFICIOUS
    Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious. Collier.
  • CO-MEDDLE
    To mix; to mingle, to temper. Shak.
  • INOFFICIOUSLY
    Not-officiously.

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