Merit, vb. to deserve; trans.: Sonn. 142, 4. Pilgr. 325. Wiv. II, 2, 210. Meas. III, 1, 206. Ado III, 1, 19. As V, 4, 194. Shr. IV, 3, 41. All's II, 3, 291. Wint. V, 1, 175. John II, 520. H5 III, 6, 24. H6B V, 1, 81. Troil. IV, 1, 53. Tit. III, 1, 197. Rom. I, 1, 228. Lr. V, 3, 302. With of: “hath more of thee --ed than a band of Clotens had ever scar for,” Cymb. V, 5, 304 (from in Wint. V, 1, 175). With an inf.: --ed to “be so,” Wint. III, 2, 49. Troil. IV, 1, 55. Absol.: “all his faults to Marcius shall be honours, though indeed in aught he m. not,” Cor. I, 1, 280.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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