unˈmeddled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
† 1. Unmixed. Obs.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 320 Love of Crist is not, but ȝif it be cleer, unmedlid wiþ errours. c 1449 Pecock Repr. i. x. 49 Euen as grammer and dyuynyte ben ij. dyuerse..kunnyngis, and therfore ben vnmedlid. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. iv. I ij, The wisedome, and vnmedled puritie of Language. 1595 Southwell Poems, ‘Times goe by Turnes’, Unmeddled joyes heere to no man befall. |
2. Not meddled or interfered with. Also without prep.
| 1535 Coverdale Judith xii. 11 That a woman shulde so laugh a man to scorne, that she were come from him vn⁓medled withall. 1573 Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 292 [The corn] to remane unmedlit or disponit upoun be ony. 1602 Carew Cornwall 105 [The flood-gate] is opened and closed for sixe dayes in the whole, continuing..other ten dayes vnmedled withall. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 68 Yow are to lette the water in the tubbe stande all night unmedled with. 1690 W. Walker Idiomat. Anglo-Lat. 269 He left it as he found it,—untoucht; unmedled withall. 1884 Sir C. Bowen in Law Times Rep. LI. 531/1 To have the enjoyment of his goods and chattels unmeddled with by others. 1898 Wide World Mag. Oct. 90/2 This might lie long unmeddled with by the common crowd of the deeps. |