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Meet
King James Dictionary
or MEET, a. L. convenio. Fit suitable proper qualified convenient adapted, as to a use or purpose.
Ye shall pass over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. Deuteronomy 3
It was meet that we should make merry--Luke 15 .
Bring forth fruits meet for repentance. Matthew 3
MEET, pret. and pp. met. Gr. with.
1. To come together, approaching in opposite or different directions to come face to face as, to meet a man in the road.
His daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances. Judges 11 .
2. To come together in any place as, we met many strangers at the levee.
3. To come together in hostility to encounter. The armies met on the plains of Pharsalia.
4. To encounter unexpectedly.
5. To come together in extension to come in contact to join. The line A meets the line B and forms an angle.
6. To come to to find to light on to receive. The good man meets his reward the criminal in due time meets the punishment he deserves.
Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst,
Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
MEET, To come together or to approach near, or into company with. How pleasant it is for friends to meet on the road still more pleasant to meet in a foreign country.
1. To come together in hostility to encounter. The armies met at Waterloo, and decided the fate of Buonaparte.
2. To assemble to congregate. The council met at 10 o'clock. The legislature will meet on the first Wednesday in the month.
3. To come together by being extended to come in contact to join. Two converging lines will meet in a point.
To meet with to light on to find to come to often with the sense of an unexpected event.
We met with many things worthy of observation.
1. To join to unite in company.
Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us.
2. To suffer unexpectedly as, to meet with a fall to meet with a loss.
3. To encounter to engage in opposition.
Royal mistress,
Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury
From the fierce prince.
4. To obviate a Latinism.
To meet half way, to approach from an equal distance and meet metaphorically, to make mutual and equal concessions, each party renouncing some pretensions.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Meet'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/m/meet.html.
