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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

METE, v.t. [L. metior; Heb. to measure.] To measure; to ascertain quantity, dimensions or capacity by any rule or standard. [Obsolescent.]
METE, n. Measure; limit; boundary; used chiefly in the plural, in the phrase, metes and bounds.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a line that indicates a boundary [syn: boundary line, border, borderline, delimitation, mete]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb (meted; meting) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English metan; akin to Old High German mezzan to measure, Latin modus measure, Greek medesthai to be mindful of Date: before 12th century 1. archaic measure 2. to give out by measure ; dole — usually used with out <mete out punishment> II. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin meta Date: 15th century boundary <metes and bounds>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v.tr. 1 (usu. foll. by out) literary apportion or allot (a punishment or reward). 2 poet. or Bibl. measure. Phrases and idioms: mete-wand (or -yard) a standard of estimation. Etymology: OE metan f. Gmc., rel. to MEET(1) 2. n. a boundary or boundary stone. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L meta boundary, goal

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mete Mete, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Meted; p. pr. & vb. n. Meting.] [AS. metan; akin to D. meten, G. messen, OHG. mezzan, Icel. meta, Sw. m["a]ta, Goth. mitan, L. modus measure, moderation, modius a corn measure, Gr. ? to rule, ? a corn measure, and ultimately from the same root as E. measure, L. metiri to measure; cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure. [root]99. Cf. Measure, Meet, a., Mode.] To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mete Mete, v. i. To measure. [Obs.] --Mark iv. 24.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mete Mete, n. [AS. met. See Mete to measure.] Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mete Mete, n. Meat. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mete Mete, v. t. & i. To meet. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mete Mete, v. i. & t. [imp. Mette; p. p. Met.] [AS. m?tan.] To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [Obs.] ``I mette of him all night.'' --Chaucer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(metes, meting, meted) • mete out To mete out a punishment means to order that someone should be punished in a certain way. (FORMAL) His father meted out punishment with a slipper. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

met (madhadh): "To measure," either with a utensil of dry measure, as in Ex 16:18, or to measure with a line or measure of length, as in Ps 60:6; 108:7; Isa 40:12. In Isa 18:2,7 it is the rendering of qaw qaw, literally, "line-line" i.e. measuring line, referring to the Ethiopians as a nation that measured off other peoples for destruction and trod them down, as in the Revised Version (British and American). It is regarded by some as signifying strength, being cognate with the Arabic kawi, "strong." For mete of Mt 7:2 and parallel passages in Mr 4:24; Lu 6:38, see MEASURE.

H. Porter

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Measure. II. n. Measure, bound, limit, term, boundary, terminus, butt.

Moby Thesaurus

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