Word Meanings - OVERMEDDLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Excessive interference. "Justly shent for their overmeddling." Fuller.

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• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• OVERMEDDLING
  Excessive interference. "Justly shent for their overmeddling." Fuller.
• SHENT
  obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Shend, for shendeth. Chaucer.
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• JUSTLY
  In a just manner; in conformity to law, justice, or propriety; by right; honestly; fairly; accurately. "In equal balance justly weighed." Shak. Nothing can justly be despised that can not justly be blamed: where there is no choice there can be no
• INTERFERENCE
  The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness,
• OVERMEDDLE
  To meddle unduly.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• UNSHENT
  Not shent; not disgraced; blameless. Bp. Hall.