mete1
miːt/
verb
verb: mete; 3rd person present: metes; past tense: meted; past participle: meted; gerund or present participle: meting
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dispense or allot justice, a punishment, or harsh treatment.“he denounced the maltreatment meted out to minorities”
synonyms: dispense, hand out, apportion, distribute, issue,deal out, dole out, measure out, divide out, divide up, parcel out, share out, split up, give out,portion out, dish out, allocate, allot, bestow,assign, administer “the judges were unwilling to mete out harsh punishment”-
(in biblical use) measure out.“with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again”
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Origin
Old English metan ‘measure’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meten and German messen ‘to measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin meditari ‘meditate’, Greekmedesthai ‘care for’, also by meet2.
mete2
miːt/
noun
historical
noun: mete; plural noun: metes; plural noun: metes and bounds
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a boundary or boundary stone.
Origin
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin meta‘boundary, goal’.
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