mete
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1. mete - Noun
2. mete - Adjective
3. mete - Verb
Meaning
To measure.
To meet.
Meat.
To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed.
To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.
Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.
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You have to ration your opponents' victories. You have to mete them out, slowly and meanly. You have to make your opponents subliminally grateful for every little bit of compliance. That way you get away with giving up ten small losses a day, rather than ten big ones.
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Make your countrymen, as well as foreigners, believe that you mete out justice fairly, and that you see everyone as family.
A boundary "mete" is described with a beginning reference point, the cardinal direction North or South followed by an angle less than 90 degrees and a second cardinal direction, and a linear distance.
Middle period who may tell the tale of the old man? weigh absence in a scale? mete want with a span? the sum assess of the world's woes?
"Some of them denounced the skiers who competed at the Olympics and KSA officials publicly through media interviews and their social media, so we want to check the facts and review whether we should mete out punishment or not."