Meet | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Meet, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. MET; p. pr. & vb. n. MEET-ING.] [A-S. mētan, gemētan, āmētan, O. Fries. mēta, Icel. mæta, Sw. möta, Dan. møde, O. Sax. mōtian, Goth. motjan, gamotjan, O. D. moeten, N. D. gemoet(en), ontmoeten.] 1. To come together with, by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against; to happen upon; to fall in with. His daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances. Judg. xi. 34.

To come upon with a hostile object; to confront; to encounter; to engage.
To have bestowed upon, or sent to, one; to have befallen one; to have happen appropriately or deservedly; to light on; to find; to receive.

Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first. Pope. 4. To make concession to. To meet half way, to make equal concessions to.

Meet, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To come together by mutual approach; to fall in with another; to come face to face; hence, to converge; to join.

*O, when meet now Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined! Milton.*

We can as easily conceive the connection and mutual influence of soul and body, as we can explain how two mathematical lines, indefinitely produced, can be forever approaching each other, and yet never meet. Porteus.

Sense 2. To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.

*Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us, and worse our foes. Milton.*

Sense 3. To assemble together; to congregate; to collect; to gather; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December.

The materials of that building happily met together. Tillotson.

Sense 4. To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite.

It was a rare happiness that so many should meet in one chief, William of Nassau, Prince of Orange. Fuller.

To meet with. (a.) To light upon; to find; to come to; — often with the sense of an unexpected event. “We met with many things worthy of observation.” Bacon. (b.) To join; to unite in company. “Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us.” Shak. (c.) To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to meet with a loss. (d.) To encounter; to be subjected to.

*Royal mistress, Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince. Rowe.*

(e.) To obviate. [Obs. and rare.] “To meet with an objection.” Bacon.

Meet, a.

adjective

a. [A-S. gemēt, with the prefix ge, from mētan, gemētan, to meet, find, that is, to come to, to come together. So the equivalent word convenient is from Lat. convenire.] Prepared or adapted, as to a use or purpose; fit; suitable; proper; qualified; convenient.

Ye shall pass over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. Deut. iii. 18.

Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance. Matt. iii. 8.

It was meet that we should make merry. Luke xv. 32.

To be meet with, to be even with; to be equal to. [Obs.]

Meet, n.

noun

n. A meeting of huntsmen for coursing. [Eng.]