▪ I. † ymete, v. Obs.
[OE. ᵹemétan: see y- 3 c and meet v.]
To meet, meet with, encounter.
| c 893 ælfred Oros. vi. xxxi. 286 Mid þæm þæt hiene ᵹemette an mon, þa he for from Actesiphonte þære byriᵹ. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 109 Iselie beoð efre þa mildheortan for þi heo imetað þa mildheortnesse. c 1275 Wom. Samaria 67 in O.E. Misc. 86 To alle þat heo myhte iseon oþer y-mete. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1437 Him þouȝte imete mid is ost ar he at hom were. c 1300 Names of Hare 1 in Rel. Ant. I. 133 The mon that the hare i-met, Ne shal him nevere be the bet. c 1305 St. Christopher 37 in E.E.P. (1862) 60 Þe maistre þat was firs ynouȝ com & ymette him anon. |
▪ II. † ymete(n
ME. pa. pple. of mete v.1, to measure.
| c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 2092 Fuliche ne is he noȝt now fram þe vj fet ymete in brede. |