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Definition of Meted
1. mete [v] - See also: mete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meted
Literary usage of Meted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"The vengeance meted out to Lambe served to indicate the popular hatred of his
patron. Let Charles and George do what they can, The duke shall die like ..."
2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"r, meted fanne that, on two > acted at once, and nent to the other; ne vas
artificially to meet in the middest, «Mût made an amphitheater. ..."
3. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"What punishment do you think ought to be meted out to a man that would go to
thrash half a dozen black people in one night for nothing ? Answer. ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"... and without substantial foundation in law; that justice has been meted out to
this defendant who, by trickery, would deprive his fellow citizens of ..."
5. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"Yet it is grievous to think that the doom which the Phœnician, in the full
consciousness of a high religious mission, meted out to the people of Himera was ..."
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