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Definition of Mete out
1. Verb. Administer or bestow, as in small portions. "They mete out the people the food"; "The machine dispenses soft drinks"
Generic synonyms: Give
Specialized synonyms: Allot, Assign, Portion, Reallot, Deal, Apply, Give
Derivative terms: Allotment, Deal, Dispensation, Dispensation, Dispenser, Dispenser, Distributer, Distribution, Distributor
Definition of Mete out
1. Verb. To distribute something in portions; to apportion or dole out ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mete Out
Literary usage of Mete out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"Her superiors were not slow to discover the change, nor to mete out its punishment
without stint or mercy. In such cases, both parties' minds become ..."
2. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"... meted out to the people of Himera was but little harder than that which Greek
had learned to mete out to Greek. But a few years before, Athens, ..."
3. Practical High School Speller by Tobias Otterbein Chew (1914)
"mete out the punishment meet at the station meat for dinner scull the boat skull
of the skeleton rout the army route of the mail carrier prey of the lion ..."
4. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1875)
"... I will take no man's liberty of judgment from him, nor shall any man take mine
from me, and what measure I mete out to others, I expect from them again. ..."
5. Speeches, Messages, and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown: A by Albert Gallatin Brown (1859)
"That measure of justice which yon would mete out to me or my people, mete out to
others and their people. That measure of justice which you would mete out ..."
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