: to give (something) to the people who one decides should get it : to give out or distribute (something) We're trying to be fair in meting out rewards and punishments. —usually used to refer to something unpleasant (such as punishment) Huge fines were meted out as punishment. The king meted out justice as he saw fit.
How do you use meted in a sentence?
Meted In A Sentence
- Terrible reprisals were meted out to the rebels.
- Your justice may most rightly be meted out.
- As you mete, it is meted out to you.
- Thus was justice tardily meted out to us.
- To each of us different fates are meted out.
- The punishment or banishment now to be meted out to him was as nothing.
What does meted mean in history?
verb (used with object), met·ed, met·ing. to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment. Archaic. to measure.
