mete

«mete» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: measure; give out — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

measure; give out

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To measure out, or to give out as a reward or punishment. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "mete" survives mainly in "mete out", meaning to give out a punishment or reward. The first sentence uses the old sense of measuring.

examples

• And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. (Torah EXO.16.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• Wrap yourself in this skin, leave the palace, and walk so long as you can find ground to carry you: when one sacrifices everything to virtue the gods know how to mete out reward. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →
• In the sad and beautiful story of Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes, we have another instance of the severe punishments meted out by Apollo to those who in any way incurred his displeasure. (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome) tree →

primary record

measure

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Who hath meted out the spirit of the LORD?
• God spoke in His holiness, that I would exult; that I would divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
• God spoke in His holiness, that I would exult; that I would divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
• When He maketh a weight for the wind, and meteth out the waters by measure.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mete» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.