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METE

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
METE, mæte, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§5; §55; §386;
MEAT, food
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  • Mete

    cibus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 22, 80.
  • Mín mete (mett, Lind. Rush.) is ðæt ic wyrce ðæs willan ðe mé sende,

    • Jn. Skt. 4, 34.
  • Gesoden mæt on wætere

    elixus cibus,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 27, 17.
  • Swéte mete

    dapis,

    • ii. 28, 29.
  • Ðú scealt mid earfoþnyssum ðé metes tilian

    thou shalt with hardships get thyself food,

    • Homl. i. 18, 15.
  • Ðæt hig beón eów tó mete

    ut sint vobis in escam,

    • Gen. 1, 29: Cd. 38
    • ;
    • Th. 50, 25
    • ;
    • Gen. 814.
  • Gá hyt eft in tó ðam hálegan mynstre mid mete and mid mannum

    let it revert to the holy monastery with meat and with men,

    • Chart. Th. 379, 21.
  • Wyt ǽton swétne mete (

    dulces cibos

    ),
    • Ps. Th. 54, 13.
  • Ðæt ic macige mete ðínum fæder

    ut faciam escas patri tuo,

    • Gen. 27, 9.
  • Gif hý him syððan ne dóþ mete ne munde

    if they afterwards give him neither food nor favour,

    • L. Edm. S. 1
    • ;
    • Th. i. 248, 7.
  • Ðǽr mæte þygde,

    • Bd. 5, 4
    • ;
    • S. 617, 11.
  • Mettas

    cibaria,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 71:

    dapes,

    • 28, 1:

    fercula,

    • Hpt. Gl. 492, 75.
  • Ða mettas (

    cibos

    )

    ðe God self gesceóp,

    • Past. 43, 9
    • ;
    • Swt. 319, 1.
  • Mínum þeówum ic sylle mettas,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 15
    • ;
    • Som. 18, 65.
  • Se ðe mettas (

    escas

    )

    hæfþ,

    • Lk. Skt. 3, 11.
  • Earmra hungur hé oferswýþde mid mettum,

    • Bd. 2, 1
    • ;
    • S. 500, 24.
  • Mid cynelícum mettum (

    regalibus epulis

    )

    gefylled,

    • 2, 6
    • ;
    • S. 528, 14.
  • Fram swéttrum mettum

    a cibis luculentioribus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 6, 25.
Etymology
[
Goth. mats
:
O. Sax. meti
:
O. Frs. mete
:
Icel. matr
:
O. H. Ger. maz; n. esca.
]
Similar entries
v. ǽfen-, cócor-, dæg-, ést-, flǽsc-, hreác-, mǽl-, morgen-, nón-, pan-, undern-, wyrt-mete.
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