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mete

1   [meet]
verb (used with object), met·ed, met·ing.
1.
to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment.
2.
Archaic. to measure.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English metan; cognate with Dutch meten, Old Norse meta, Gothic mitan, German messen to measure, Greek mḗdesthai to ponder

Related forms
un·met·ed, adjective

Synonyms
1. deal, measure, parcel.

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  • Carter's moral code of family loyalty propels him to mete out brutal and exacting revenge.
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mete

2   [meet]
noun
1.
a limiting mark.
2.
a limit or boundary.
Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Middle French < Latin mēta goal, turning post

Synonyms
2. bound.

Met.E.

 
metallurgical engineer.
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mete1 (miːt)
 
—vb
1.  formal (usually foll by out) to distribute or allot (something, often unpleasant)
 
—vb, —n
2.  poetic, dialect (to) measure
 
[Old English metan; compare Old Saxon metan, Old Norse meta, German messen to measure]

mete2 (miːt)
 
—n
rare a mark, limit, or boundary (esp in the phrase metes and bounds)
 
[C15: from Old French, from Latin mēta goal, turning post (in race)]

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mete
O.E. metan "to measure" (class V strong verb; past tense mæt, pp. meten), from P.Gmc. *metanan (cf. O.Fris., O.N. meta, Du. meten, Ger. messen, Goth. mitan "to measure"), probably ultimately from the same PIE base as meter. Only used now with out. Related: Meted; meting.
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mete
"boundary," now only in phrase metes and bounds, 1471, from O.Fr. mete, from L. meta "goal, boundary."
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