intermell

present singular third person intermells · participle present intermelling · participle past intermelled · past intermelled

1. archaicTo mix together, intermeddle, intermix.

   The lyfe of this wretched world whiche is alway entermelled with moche bitternes.

   1509, John Fisher, The Funeral Sermon of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby

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   When Fame, / Ubiquitous, to Dejaneira came— / Fame, who her facts with fictions intermells, / And falsifies the very truths she tells, / And whispered her—"Amphitryonides / Loved Iöle."

   1866, J. B. Rose, The Metamorphoses of Ovid. [Translated in Verse.]

2. archaicTo concern oneself with; to interfere.

   As for the reſt, to ſnort in belly cheere, / To bite, to gnaw, and boldly intermell / With ſacred things, in which thou doſt excell, / Vnforc'd he'le doe.

   1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie