bemeet
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]bemeet (third-person singular simple present bemeets, present participle bemeeting, simple past and past participle bemet)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To meet with.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant, or I shall so bemeet thee with thy yard as thou shall think on prating whilst thou liv'st!