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Substitute:
meet, of suitable dimensions, made to fit (with dat. )
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  • Heó ðone cláð hire on ádyde, and wæs swíðe gemǽte hire micelnysse (

    it was a very excellent fit),

      Hml. S. 7, 157.
  • Seó ðrúh wæs geworht hire swá gemiéte swylce heó hyre sylfre swá gesceapen wǽre, and æt hire heáfde wæs áheáwen se stán gemǽte þám heáfde

    (ita aptum (gemǽte, Bd. Sch. 451, 14) corpori uirginis sarcofagum inuentum est, ac si ei specialiter praeparatum fuisset, et locus quoque capitis seorsum fabrefactus ad mensuram capitis illius aþtissime figuratus apparuit,

      Bd. 4, 19), 20, 102-6.
  • Besceáwige se abbod þǽra reáfa gemet, þæt hý ne synd tó scorte, ac gemiéte þám þe hyra notiað

    (uestimenta uténtibus ea mensurata),

      R. Ben. 89, 19. ,
meet, suitable for a purpose, fitted, apt:
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  • Gemǽte gewrixl

    apta uicissitudo,

      An. Ox. 4271.
  • Lima menniscum brycum gemǽte þú sealdest mé

    membra humanis usibus apta dedisti,

      Angl. xi. 116, 15.
  • Lima tó menniscum bricum gemǽte,

      '112, 18.
  • [He wes of his speche sciene monne imete,

      Laym. 6584.
Etymology
O.H.Ger. ge-mazi aequalis. ']
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v. un-gemǽte.
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