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Mete   /mit/  /mˈɛtə/   Listen
verb
Mete  v. t. & v. i.  To meet. (Obs.)



Mete  v. i. & v. t.  (past mette; past part. met)  To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. (Obs.) "I mette of him all night."



Mete  v. t.  (past & past part. meted; pres. part. meting)  To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.



Mete  v. i.  To measure. (Obs.)



noun
Mete  n.  Meat. (Obs.)



Mete  n.  Measure; limit; boundary; used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mete" Quotes from Famous Books



... stupefied. When God does mete out punishment here on earth, He does so with an overflowing measure. This devoted mother did not even evince anxiety as to the welfare of her son, for whose sake she had made so many blunders, so ...
— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman

... {FN41-8} has outlined the duties of a king. "He should shower amenities like Indra (lord of the gods); collect taxes gently and imperceptibly as the sun obtains vapor from water; enter into the life of his subjects as the wind goes everywhere; mete out even justice to all like Yama (god of death); bind transgressors in a noose like Varuna (Vedic deity of sky and wind); please all like the moon, burn up vicious enemies like the god of fire; and support all like ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... like gross terms, The Prince will, in the perfectness of time, Cast off his followers; and their memory Shall as a pattern or a measure live By which his Grace must mete the lives of others." ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various

... wimmen are made with divine impulses and desires, and human needs and weaknesses, needin' the same heavenly light, and the same human aids and helps. The law should mete out to them the ...
— Samantha on the Woman Question • Marietta Holley

... clubs, you may demoralize their minds of all ideas of right and wrong, but remember! the gullotine is suspended over your own necks!! The agrarian doctrines will ere long be applied to yourselves, for with whatsoever measure ye mete, it shall be measured ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various


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