English citations of meet
Adjective: "suitable"
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- 1599, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 1:
- Is it possible Disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
- 1611, King James Bible, Genesis 2, verse 18 (origin of helpmeet):
- And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
- 1869 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Troy Town, line 61:
- Mine are apples meet for his mouth.
- 1870s Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Soothsay, lines 8-11:
- Let no man awe thee on any height
- Of earthly kingship's mouldering might.
- The dust his heel holds meet for thy brow
- Hath all of it been what both are now;
- 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth:
- It is not meet that other men see her until the marriage is consummated.
- And it was not meet that he should say to her, “Why do you not speak?”
- … for it is not meet that father and son walk side by side …
- I am not willing that he marry any of the daughters of the village farmers, nor is it meet, seeing that we bear the common name of Wang.
- It is not meet for a man to love his wife with a foolish and overweening love, as though she were a harlot.
- It is not meet that we go on living in the country like hinds and we could go and we could leave my uncle and his wife and my cousin here …
- Well, and it is meet, for he has ever stood guardian …
