mete
verbEtymology
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”).
Definitions
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.
- For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
A boundary or other limit
A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.
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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at mete. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at mete. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at mete
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA