† ymetev.
Obsolete.
To meet, meet with, encounter.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > encounter or experience
ymetec893
findeOE
meetOE
counterc1325
overtakec1390
limp?a1400
tidea1400
runa1450
to fall with ——?c1475
onlightc1475
recounterc1485
recount1490
to come in witha1500
occur1531
to fall on ——1533
to fall upon ——1533
beshine1574
rencontre1582
entertain1591
cope with1594
happen1594
tocome1596
incur1599
forgather1600
thwart1601
to fall in1675
cross1684
to come across ——1738
to cross upon (or on)1748
to fall across ——1760
experience1786
to drop in1802
encounter1814
to come upon ——1820
to run against ——1821
to come in contact with1862
to run across ——1864
to knock or run up against1886
to knock up against1887
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. vi. xxxi. 286 Mid þæm þæt hiene ȝemette an mon, þa he for from Actesiphonte þære byriȝ.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 109 Iselie beoð efre þa mildheortan for þi heo imetað þa mildheortnesse.
c1275 Wom. Samaria 67 in Old Eng. Misc. 86 To alle þat heo myhte iseon oþer y-mete.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1437 Him þouȝte imete mid is ost ar he at hom were.
c1300 Names of Hare 1 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 133 The mon that the hare i-met, Ne shal him nevere be the bet.
c1305 St. Christopher 37 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 60 Þe maistre þat was firs ynouȝ com & ymette him anon.
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