meet vb. (1=mod. ‘meet with’; 2 now expressed by the simple ‘meet’)
1.
to
encounter, experience, receive, gain
Gent. I. i. 15
“When thou dost meet
good hap,”
1H4 V. v. 42
“Meeting the check of
such another day,”
2H4 IV. v. 184
“By what by-paths I met
this crown,”
Lr. III. vii. 101
“If she live long, And .
. . meet the old course of
death.”
2.
“
with,” (i) come face to face with or
into the company of Gent. V. ii.
45,
Err. I. ii. 27
“I'll meet with you upon
the mart,”
Mac. I. i. 7
“There to meet with
Macbeth”
; (ii) encounter (an enemy, &c.)
1H4 IV. iv. 13
“The king with mighty .
. . power Meets with Lord Harry,”
2H4 II. iii. 48
“I must go and meet with
danger there.”
3.
to come to a meeting,
keep an appointment
Wiv. II. iii. 5
“'Tis past the hour,
sir, that Sir Hugh promised to
meet,”
Meas. IV. i. 20, AYL. V. ii. 131.
