Definitions

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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of meet
  • adjective comparative form of meet: more meet

Etymologies

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meet + -est

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Examples

  • A beard the meetest racing ground where gnats and lice contend,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Whenever thou meetest with a woman of but half her perfections, thou wilt marry — Do, Jack.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Harlowe family, thou wilt go on tempting danger and vengeance, till thou meetest with vengeance; and this, whether thou marriest, or not: for the nuptial life will not, I doubt, till age join with it, cure thee of that spirit for intrigue which is continually running away with thee, in spite of thy better sense, and transitory resolutions.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But while they are sinking and depressing their contemplative part into the body, and dragging it down by their sensual and intemperate appetites, as by so many weights of lead, they make themselves appear little better than hostlers or graziers that still ply their cattle with hay, straw, or grass, looking upon such provender as the properest and meetest food for them.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meetest the fellow.

    The Life of King Henry the Fifth 2004

  • Alessandro, being well acquainted with the Hoste of the house, willed him to provide for the Abbot and his people, and then to lodge him where hee thought it meetest.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Whatever man thou meetest with, immediately say to thyself: What opinions has this man about good and bad?

    The Meditations 2004

  • Let the court and philosophy now be to thee step-mother and mother: return to philosophy frequently and repose in her, through whom what thou meetest with in the court appears to thee tolerable, and thou appearest tolerable in the court.

    The Meditations 2004

  • In the meane time (we staying) our other prizes which followed after, came vp to vs. And nowe wee had our hands full and with ioy shaped our course for England, for so it was thought meetest, hauing now so many Portugals, Spaniards and Frenchmen amongst vs, that if we should haue taken any more prizes afterwards, wee had not bene well able to haue manned them without endangering our selues.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Wherefore we will you deliuer him one or more of such painfull young men as he shal thinke meetest for his purpose: and likewise such money and wares as he shal think best to take with him.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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