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mete

verb

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noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /miːt/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English mǣte, ġemǣte (“moderate, suitable”). More at meet.

  1. Obsolete spelling of meet (“suitable, fitting”).

    “I could not finde any man for whose name this booke was more agreable for hope [of] protection, more mete for submission to iudgement, nor more due for respect of worthynesse of your part and thankefulnesse of my husbandes and myne.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle English mete, from Old French mete (“boundary, boundary marker”), from Latin mēta (“post, goal, marker”). Cognate with the second element in Old English wullmod (“distaff”).

  1. A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-West Germanic *metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną (“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, consider”). Cognate with Scots mete (“to measure”), Saterland Frisian meete (“to measure”), West Frisian mjitte (“to measure”), Dutch meten (“to measure”), German messen (“to measure”), Swedish mäta (“to measure”), Latin modus (“limit, measure, target”), Ancient Greek μεδίμνος (medímnos, “measure, bushel”), Ancient Greek μέδεσθαι (médesthai, “care for”), Old Armenian միտ (mit, “mind”).

  1. To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

    “Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race”

    “Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards.”