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† 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. 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 vnmedled 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. Bowes, 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.
