All 4 Uses of
meddle
in
Moby Dick
- Now what cozening fiend it was, gentlemen, that possessed Radney to meddle with such a man in that corporeally exasperated state, I know not; but so it happened.†
Chpt 52-54
- It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures.†
Chpt 64-66 *
- They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.†
Chpt 88-90
- To which my Lord Duke in substance replied (both letters were published) that he had already done so, and received the money, and would be obliged to the reverend gentleman if for the future he (the reverend gentleman) would decline meddling with other people's business.†
Chpt 88-90
Definition:
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(meddle) interfere (in another's affairs or business); or handle (something that shouldn't be handled)