meetingn.
/ˈmiːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmidɪŋ/ I. Senses relating to the gathering together of people.
1.
a. The act or an instance of assembling or coming together for social, business, or other purposes; the action of encountering a person or persons. Often following a possessive adjective or genitive, or with with, frequently with some gerundial force. Formerly in †on meeting, †in meeting, †at (also next, etc.) meeting, †till meeting.
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OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) 46 An metincge þeah þæs geferes sy þæt gebed gescyrt.
lOE Canterbury Psalter lxiii. 3 Protexisti me a conventu malignantium : ðu bewruge me from gencyme vel metinge warigendra.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1316 (MED) Bliþe was her meteing.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 5846 His broþer aaron he mett, For god him-self þair mething set.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 110 Summe bestes han gode meetynge, þat is to seye, for to meete with hem first at morwe.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 4580 The kyng, that aȝens Merlyne went jn metyng.
1480 R. Cely Let. 2 Sept. in Cely Lett. (1975) 87 I pray you hartely to be at Bolen the iij day of Septembyr..and at howr metyng I wyll tell you mor.
1485 in E. B. Jupp Hist. Acct. Worshipful Company of Carpenters (1887) 35 Reseyvyd in the Barge at the metyng of the Kyng on the Water vijs vijd.
1559 Bp. Scot in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. App. vii. 14 At Peter's firste metinge with our Savyour Christe.
1639 in Hamilton Papers (1880) 95 Muche more of this kynd that past betwixt one of ther number and me this day..at meating.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. ii. 123 His meeting with Sophia that Evening was merely accidental. View more context for this quotation
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 3 I desire you will lock up all my drawers, and keep the keys till meeting.
1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (1862) ix. 119 The people's right of Meeting in large bodies.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) II. 27 After the first happiness of my meeting with Laura was over, after we had sat down together..to recover breath enough and calmness enough to talk.
1877 H. James American vi. 106 The impression Madame de Cintré had made upon him on their first meeting.
1903 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 314 These old makers..do not dwell on meetings in heaven.
1978 H. Carpenter Inklings ii. i. 86 At a first meeting he would talk as if he had known you for years.
1994 J. Coe What a Carve-up! (1995) 344 My mind's eye was focused on our meeting in the railway carriage all those years ago.
b. [Compare French donner rendez-vous (1628 or earlier).] to give a person (the, a) meeting: to have a meeting (also, † a duel) with a person. Now rare.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > meet or assemble for common purpose [verb (intransitive)] > make appointment for meeting
take?a1400
appoint1509
to give a person (the, a) meeting1565
1565 T. Havard Let. 16 Dec. in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) I. ii. 207 Wherby as it is reported fewe ffryse men do of late Repayre to the seyd Cytye so that the Occupyers of the seyd Cytye be driven to geve metinge to the ffryse men out of the lib(er)tyes.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 25 A friend..whom they were to procure to come disguised, and give them the meeting.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 35 Promising that he would not onely give him meeting, but take pay under him.
1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. Y1 At length, with much intreaty, he gave her a meeting.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 147 That..he would come to Bath in the winter, where I promised to give him the meeting.
1833 T. B. Macaulay War Succession in Spain in Ess. (1903) I. 509 The King resolved to give her the meeting in Catalonia.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xii. 301 You ask me to give you a meeting.
1867 J. Ingelow Story of Doom 268 I had crossed the sea, And half the sphere to give her meeting.
1910 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. IV. 91 Angel Woman, younger, fairer Far than she that now we know, Gave men meeting with a rarer Grace.
2. † a. An armed encounter; a fight, a battle. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun]
fightc893
coursec1325
stourc1325
acounterc1330
meetingc1330
setc1330
showera1375
brusha1400
semblya1400
hosting1422
poynyec1425
conflictc1440
militancea1460
grate1460
rencounter1471
chaplea1500
flitea1513
concourse?1520
concursion1533
rescounter1543
spurnc1560
rencontrea1572
discourse1573
action1579
combat1582
opposition1598
do1915
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun]
meetingc1330
convention1490
visaginga1500
conventicle1589
conventinga1625
conjuncture1644
convening1659
congress1675
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > [noun] > specifically of persons
meetingc1330
rencountering1525
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iii. viii. 66 Ac Somnite æt oþran gefeohte mid maran fultume & mid maran wærscipe to Romana gemetinge coman þonne hie ær dyde, æt þære stowe þe mon hætt Caudenes Furculus.]
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 181 Swiche meting nas neuer made Wiþ sorwe on ich aside.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 1009 At þat metyng..taken was sir Antigone.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 2692 (MED) Come and ȝiue vs on justyng, And þou shalt haue hard metyng.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 148 Vncertane victorie at bathe the meitings.
b. [Compare French rencontre (see rencounter n.).] A duel. Now historical and rare.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel
handplayeOE
deraignc1300
battlea1400
duellation1502
two-hand battlec1503
combat1567
push of pick1578
monomachy1582
combacy1586
hand fight1587
duel1589
rencounter1590
single fight1598
field meeting1603
camp-fight1605
duello1606
judicial combat1610
fight of stand?1611
stand-fight?1611
business1612
monomachia1624
single combat1625
single field1630
duelliona1637
rencontrea1722
affair of honour1737
meeting1813
holmgang1847
mensur1848
duomachy1885
1813 Ann. Reg. 1812 Chron. 31/1 A meeting took place..between Mr. O. Joynt and Mr. P. McKim..when, on the first fire, the latter was struck in the forehead.
1838 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. 6 I had..no notion that a meeting could be avoided.
1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. xxxii. 253 ‘I have come here with arms, and I do not intend to leave this room without using them, unless you promise to give me the meeting that I have proposed.’ And he took the pistol out of his pocket.
1935 G. Heyer Regency Buck x. 134 The only recent duels he could call to mind were the Duke of York's meeting with Colonel Lennox..and Lord Castlereagh's late affair with Mr Canning. Neither of these meetings had proved fatal.
3.
a. A gathering or assembly of a number of people for entertainment, discussion, legislation, etc.; the people so assembled.Formerly used to include private gatherings and parties, but now chiefly restricted to public gatherings, assemblies of organized societies, etc., and (now) esp. business appointments between two or more people.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting
synagoguea1300
councilc1340
collect1382
convent1382
convocation1387
samingc1400
advocationa1425
meetingc1425
steven1481
congress1528
concion1533
conference1575
collection1609
congression1611
divan1619
rendezvous1628
comitia1631
society1712
majlis1821
get-up1826
agora1886
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Tiber.) (Junius transcript) (1871) i. 26 Þæt yldeste setl on gemetingum hi seceað.]
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 89 And þer he shal breke his bowes..and turne hym home aȝein to þe assemble þat in Engelonde is callid þe metyng, or the gaderynge.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 43/2 Then by and by the Lordes assembled together..Towarde which meting, the Archebishoppe of Yorke..secretely sent for the Seale againe.
1673 J. Osgood in W. Penn Spirit of Alexander the Copper-smith 22 The Meeting could not passe it as their Approvement.
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 59 To Ogle the Nymphs in the Boxes or Musick-Meetings.
1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 29 Since they [sc. ladies] have been left out of all Meetings, except Parties at Play.
1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 16 Nov. 1/3 The rude and insulting behaviour of the gentlemen composing the society; who..when in meeting assembled..stared out of countenance every lady whom ill fortune threw in their way.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 95 He was no longer summoned to any meeting of the board.
1915 Morning Post 7 Dec. 4/3 The meeting was perfectly quiet.
1982 Daily Tel. 26 July 2/5 The meeting will seek..co-ordinated airline action to stamp out bucket shop sales of tickets.
1992 J. Mitford Amer. Way of Birth i. ii. 33 Holmes read a paper at a meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.
b. Christian Church. An assembly of people (esp. Nonconformists) for worship. Also: a Nonconformist congregation; †a Nonconformist place of worship, a chapel or meeting house (obsolete). Sometimes without article, esp. in to go to meeting. Cf. camp-meeting n., protracted meeting n. at protracted adj. Compounds, revival meeting at revival n. 3b; also go-to-meeting adj. and n., and Sunday-go-to-meeting n.During the 17th cent. in Britain, meeting came to be used spec. of gatherings of Nonconformists or Dissenters, and is now used (also in the fuller form meeting for worship) chiefly of assemblies of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In North America it is still used more generally of religious services, though this may now be considered somewhat archaic.In the Society of Friends, various regular assemblies for other purposes are indicated by a preceding word, as monthly, preparative, Yearly Meeting, etc.: see the first element.
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society > faith > church government > laity > congregation > [noun]
lathingc897
church folka1200
parishc1300
congregation1526
meeting1593
assemblya1616
society1738
pew1882
society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > nonconformist
conventicle?1550
meeting-place1589
meeting1593
meeting house1632
chapel1662
pantile1714
tabernacle1768
gospel-shop?1782
schism-shop1801
bethel1840
schism-house1843
Ebenezer1849
Bethesda1857
Salem1857
praise house1862
1593 Act 35 Eliz. c. 1 To..be present at any unlawful Assemblies, Conventicles, or Meetings, under Colour or Pretence of any Exercise of Religion.
1653 G. Fox Coll. Christian Epist. (1698) 20 Fear not the Powers of Darkness, but keep your Meetings, and meet in that, which keeps you over them.
1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 51 September the twenty fourth, being Lords day, as he was going home from the Meeting.
1679 Established Test 23 A..Jesuit takes a Lodging at a Quakers,..goes to the Silent meeting with his Landlord.
1727 Minutes of Yearly Meeting of Soc. Friends 26 Mar. (J. Phillips, 1783) Any person denied by a Monthly Meeting is adjudged as disowned by Friends.
1750 Nova Scotia Archives (1869) 618 A Meeting for Dissenters, a Court House and Prison.
1781 W. Hutton Hist. Birmingham 117 Another was erected in the reign of King William, now denominated The Old Meeting.
1815 W. Field Warwick & Leamington 140 Wesleian Methodist Meeting. This is situated in Gerard Lane, small in extent, and humble in appearance.
1834 Tracts for Times No. 29. 3 There is something so fine in the prayers without book, as they are offered at meeting.
1877 W. W. Fowler Woman on Amer. Frontier ix. 210 The following ‘first day’, which world's people call the Sabbath, meeting was attended at Newton by the whole family.
1928 L. Stockett Baltimore x. 172 During the Revolution a young Friend was read out of Meeting because he looked at the muster.
1941 Amer. Speech 16 23/2 Meetin' ain't over till the benediction's said.
1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 183 Meeting, the service in a Presbyterian church.
1966 E. H. Jones Margery Fry v. 46 She did not..experience in Meeting or elsewhere that spiritual communion which was supposed to nourish ‘concerns’.
1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. ii. v. 206 Occasionally, though, there'd be ‘revivals’ when a preacher from away 'ould come and stop in somebody's house, and have meetings night after night in the chapel.
1993 Ensign Mar. 71/2 Church members skip Sunday meetings to seek recreation..at sports arenas, and at theaters.
1999 Friend 23 July 18/3 Surely Chas Raws cannot be right when he says that over 40 per cent of his Meeting's members have not been at Meeting for worship for at least 10 years!
c. A gathering of people for a sporting competition; a sporting event; spec. = race meeting n. at race n.1 Compounds 1a. Cf. meet n.2 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > race-meeting
meeting1676
race meeting1786
1676 E. Verney Let. 23 Nov. in M. M. Verney Memoirs (1899) IV. vi. 187 The King & the jockeys met at supper..where was made 6 hare-matches for 500l. a match, to be run at Newmarket next meeting.
1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 App. to Chron. 128/1 Westminster Races... Spring Meeting.
1859 Ann. Reg. 73 Magnificent weather and excellent sport made the great people's meeting [sc. the Derby] pass off with great éclat.
1896 Daily News 8 Sept. 5/2 At the forthcoming meeting of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club to be shortly held in New York, there will be a discus-throwing competition, as well as a reproduction of the famous race from Marathon to Athens.
1926 Daily Gaz. (Karachi) 11 Oct. 5 Karachi Autumn Meeting. Also ran: Teddy... Also ran: Sir Visto.
1960 Times 12 July 13/4 It isn't only the field events that are a poor show at top-class athletics meetings.
1998 Yachts & Yachting 17 Apr. 78/1 A fleet of 24 Contenders was..trapezing up the first beat in the first race of the open meeting at Datchet Water SC.
4. poetic. = meeting-place n. rare.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > place of meeting or assembly
meeting-place1553
place (point, port, etc.) of rendezvous1556
meeting1598
emporium1683
rallying place1759
rallying point1759
meeting-ground1840
parish pump1840
point1967
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 175 On thursday we our selues will march. Our meeting Is Bridgenorth. View more context for this quotation
1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. iii. 110 The Domdaniel caverns lie: Their impious meeting.
II. Senses relating to the coming together of things.† 6. The average length of pieces in a consignment of timber, used to determine the price. Obsolete.
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a. The joining, coming together, intersection, confluence, etc., of two or more things. See also meeting of (the) minds at mind n.1 17g.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > [noun] > specifically of inanimate objects
meetinga1387
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 5 In..bookes..blaseþ and schyneþ..þe riȝt rule of þewes,..þe metynge of þe þre waies of þe þre vertues of deuynyte.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. 208 (MED) Ther sat Glad Pouerte..At a naruh meetyng off hih-weies thre.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 527/1 I drawe nere, as a shyppe dothe lande, or any other thynges whan they come to the metyng.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. iv. 21 The meetings of the waters.
a1642 J. Suckling Brennoralt (1646) iii. i. 32 Her face is like the milky way i' th' skie, A meeting of gentle lights without name.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Solid Angle, is an Angle made by the meeting of three or more Planes, and those joining in a Point.
1779 Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) 68 768 Squares formed by the meeting of the horizontal and vertical lines.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 349 The meeting of the two opposite currents [of wind] here produces the intermediate space called the calms or variables.
1881 P. Brooks Candle of Lord 128 In this miracle..there is a meeting of generosity and frugality which is striking.
1959 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties (ed. 2) ii. ii. 342 Finally we must consider a form of alliance that is less common..: the meeting of extremes. The coalition of the party farthest to the Right with the party farthest to the Left..seems contrary to nature.
1991 BOMB Summer 37/1 Jazz was World Music right from the beginning. It's a meeting of European and African music on American soil.
b. Woodworking and Masonry. A joint. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > types of joint
tenon and mortise1610
mortise and tenon1631
meeting1663
rustic1728
white joint1758
ground-joint1793
flat joint1825
hick-joint1842
perpend1867
struck joint1876
tuck-joint1879
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint
indenting1382
scarf1497
swallowtail1548
dovetail1565
mortise-piece1577
tenon and mortise1610
culver-tail1616
mortise and tenon1631
finger joint1657
breaking joint1663
meeting1663
mitre1665
scarfing1671
heading joint1773
dovetail-joint1776
butting joint1803
bevel-joint1823
lap-joint1823
lapped mitre1825
mitre dovetail1847
bridle joint1860
mortise1875
sypher-joint1875
keyed mitre1876
tongue-and-groove1882
saddle joint1948
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 7 Which will hinder the Rain..to peirce..through the meeting of the Brickwork and Stone.
1667 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (ed. 5) To Rdr. sig. B2v In the square meeting of the Table.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 70 What are the ‘end boards’? They are boards which cover and form the ends of the meetings.
c. Mining. A point in a shaft or slope at which ascending and descending mine-cars pass. Also: a point in a road where the passage widens to allow trucks, etc., to pass. Now chiefly historical.
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1830 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay (1843) 26 We'd pass'd the meetin's aw've ne doubt.
1848 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (Newcastle Terms) 124 Meetings, the middle of a pit or inclined plane.
1875 R. F. Martin tr. J. Havrez On Recent Improvem. Winding Machinery 36 If these moments be equal at meetings and at the landing of the cage.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Meeting, a siding or pass-by on underground roads.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 44 When coal was raised in creels or corves the shaft was bulged at the meetings.
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1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 14 The Method of buying a quantity of Timber is to add the Contents together of the several Pieces; the Quotient thereof is call'd the Meeting of that Timber, and accordingly thereto the Value of the whole Quantity is sold.
1771 Rep. Comm. Supplying Navy with Timber 11 The Price of Timber at the London Market is raised from 3l. to 4l. 10s. and 5l. a Load, for what runs from 60 to 100 Feet Meetings.
1792 Jrnl. House of Commons 13 Feb. (1803) 47 364/2 Oak timber under 40 feet meetings has increased in price, since the year 1771, about 15 shillings per load, whereas timber of 60 feet meetings has increased only 5 shillings per load.
Compounds
C1. (In some compounds with particular reference to sense 3b.)† meeting acquaintance n. Obsolete rare
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1792 F. Burney Let. May in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 153 Mrs. Kennedy..with whom I renewed a meeting acquaintance, but evaded a visiting one.
meeting bonnet n.
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1862 Ladies' Repository May 303/1 I saw Mis's Ashley with her meeting-bonnet on and Hetty dressed like a doll.
1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) p. lxxix Her new meetin'-bunnet Felt somehow thru' its crown a pair O' blue eyes sot upon it.
meeting clothes n.
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1775 in O. E. Winslow Amer. Broadside Verse (1930) 141/2 He got him on his meeting clothes.
1867 ‘T. Lackland’ Homespun i. 63 The ‘meetin clothes’ of the children are laid away for another week, and the old ones got out again.
meeting coat n.
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1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xliv. 291 Then entered Squire Jenkins himself, clean shaved for once, and arrayed in his meetin' coat.
1887 M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance 139 An thar was Israel in his meetin coat, an' me in my best gown.
meeting date n.
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1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 1- c/7 [He] said repeatedly that he was willing to meet Finley, but no meeting date was ever set.
meeting-day n.
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1590 T. Fenne Hecubaes Mishaps in Frutes sig. Dd3v Achilles hath set down a certaine meeting day, To meet thy sister and my selfe.
1644 in A. Perry & C. S. Brigham Early Rec. Portsmouth (Rhode Island) (1901) 32 It is..ordered that the businesse of such metinge dayes shal be specified.
1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772: Pt. 2 364 After three market-days or meeting-days within the town of Halifax.
1900 E. A. Dix Deacon Bradbury 126 An' a lie it'd be..ef I stayed in th' congregation another day after nex' meetin'-day.
meeting dress n.
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1887 Harper's Mag. Jan. 328 One Sunday morning her mother essayed to wash her before putting 0n her ‘meeting dress’.
1956 B. Chute Greenwillow viii. 99 You think I should wear my meeting-dress, the one I went to church in once?
meeting gown n.
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1856 M. J. Holmes 'Lena Rivers 30 Nobody'd think any better of them for being rigged out in their very best meetin' gowns.
1887 M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance 300 Hatty in her meeting-gown of light-brown delaine, and her white meeting-hat..was not pretty.
meeting hat n. rare
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1887 M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance 300 Hatty in her meeting-gown of light-brown delaine, and her white meeting-hat..was not pretty.
meeting-point n.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > state or quality of being convergent > [noun] > point of convergence
confluity1623
cone1705
meeting-point1818
conflux1826
confluence1828
nodal point1862
meeting-place1897
node1902
node point1957
1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 152 Those notes of the passage immediately under the meeting points of the sign [for diminuendo-crescendo].
1963 Times 30 Jan. 12/6 A central meeting-point common to many villages.
meeting-room n.
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1682 R. Hooke Minute 3 May in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. in Oxf. (1930) VII. 595 The barometer, that stood in the meeting-room.
1976 T. Stoppard Dirty Linen 9 An overspill meeting room for House of Commons business.
2000 Independent on Sunday 20 Aug. 15/1 ‘Curating the environment’—working on refurbishing a number of meeting rooms.
meeting-stead n. rare
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1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 22 Zeus..sent him two ernes to fly Adown..that Meeting-stead to find.
C2.
meeting-folks n. colloquial Nonconformists, Dissenters.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person > group
separation1599
meeting-folks1835
meeting-goers1839
1835 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 491 My father drank to Church and King, And the Meeting-folks love no such thing.
meeting-goers n. colloquial = meeting-folks n.
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1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxxiii. 219 Such things are indignantly frowned upon by all the meeting-goers in the community.
1994 United Church Observer Mar. 13/1 Colebrook meeting-goers are encouraged to be creative.
meeting seed n. U.S. colloquial dried aromatic seed (esp. aniseed, caraway, dill, or fennel) such as was formerly chewed at Nonconformist or Dissenting meetings.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > caraway-seed sweets
caraway1557
carvya1665
caraway-comfit1710
meeting seed1851
1851 Knickerbocker Sept. 372 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) 577 Some people call it ‘caraway’ and ‘aniseseed’, but we call it ‘meetin'-seed’, 'cause we cal'late it keeps us awake in meetin'.
1905 E. U. Valentine Hecla Sandwith 25 [He] sat contentedly munching ‘meeting seed’ which Molly Tucker..had given him.
1940 E. Early New Eng. Sampler 319 In old New England gardens there grew three plants called Meetin' Seed—Fennel, Dill, and Caraway.
meeting time n. a time at which a meeting is held; spec. (chiefly U.S.) the time appointed for a Nonconformist or Dissenting meeting.
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1639 Rec. Colony & Plantation New Haven (1857) I. 26 On the Lords Day in the meeting time.
1881 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Fireside Stories 200 We were in disgrace, we boys; and the reason of it was this: we had laughed out in meeting-time!
1996 New Yorker 21 Oct. 126/2 John Tower..had faded away before dinner, to appear chirpily the following morning at meeting time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
meetingadj.
/ˈmiːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmidɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [adjective] > welcoming
meeting1548
friendly1553
welcoming1656
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus 1 Tim. in Paraphr. New Test. i. f. 15 The thing that they renounce, is withal studious endeuoure to be embraced (as they saye) with meting armes [L. obuiis, ut aiunt, ulnis amplectendum].
1639 J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 122 Bee not too meeting, and seeme not too hasty in accepting graces and favours.
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 36 Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce.
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 73 He..offers himself to the visits of a Friend with facility, and all the meeting Readiness of Appetite and Desire.
2.
a. That meets or comes together.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > [adjective]
encountering1586
meeting1593
the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > contiguous > meeting another or each other
meeting1593
incursant1657
conterminous1862
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Fij The wilde waues..Whose ridges with the meeting cloudes contend. View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 6 As knots by the conflux of meeting sap, Infects the sound Pine. View more context for this quotation
1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) iii. 27 The meeting Points the sacred Hair dissever From the fair Head, for ever and for ever!
1856 P. H. Gosse Tenby ix. 81 We..suddenly plunge down into a narrow lane with tall, almost meeting hedges, a perfect wilderness of flowers.
1881 D. G. Rossetti House of Life xii Still glades; and meeting faces scarcely fann'd.
b. spec. in Joinery.Often hyphenated with a following noun.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [adjective] > joined > of joints: that meet
butting1447
meeting1825
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 590 The staff stile, which imitates the meeting-stiles.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 625 The common rafters..must be so arranged that a rafter shall lie under every one of the meeting-joints.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 538 The three equal wheels..are set in the sheers—the first of the three being upon the carriage-axle, which is in halves as before, and the meeting-ends supported on the sheers.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1419/1 Meeting-post,..that stile of a canal-lock gate which meets the corresponding stile of the other gate at the mid-width of the bay.
1944 E. E. Haycraft in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder v. 215/2 By lowering the upper sash an opening is made at the top through which stale air may escape from the room, while at the same time fresh air may enter at the meeting rails.
1993 P. Bianchina Illustr. Dict. Building Materials 27 The meeting rails of a double-hung window..are usually bevelled and of a thicker material than the sash sides.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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