"meed" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /miːd/ [General-American, UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-meed.wav Forms: meeds [plural]
Rhymes: -iːd Etymology: From Middle English meede, mede, from Old English mēd, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch miede (“wages”), Low German mede (“payment, wages, reward”), German Miete (“rent”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 (mizdō, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”), Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”), Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”), Sanskrit मीळ्ह (mīḷhá), Sanskrit मीढ (mīḍhá), Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mey- (change)}}, {{inh|en|enm|meede}} Middle English meede, {{inh|en|ang|mēd}} Old English mēd, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*miʀdu}} Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*mizdō||meed}} Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”), {{inh|en|ine-pro|*misdʰós|*misdʰéh₂}} Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂, {{der|en|ine-pro|*mey-|t=to exchange}} Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”), {{cog|nl|miede||wages}} Dutch miede (“wages”), {{cog|nds|mede||payment, wages, reward}} Low German mede (“payment, wages, reward”), {{cog|de|Miete||rent}} German Miete (“rent”), {{cog|got|𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉||meed, reward, payment, recompense}} Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 (mizdō, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”), {{cog|grc|μισθός||wage}} Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”), {{cog|cu|мьзда||reward}} Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”), {{cog|sa|मीळ्ह|tr=mīḷhá}} Sanskrit मीळ्ह (mīḷhá), {{cog|sa|मीढ|tr=mīḍhá}} Sanskrit मीढ (mīḍhá), {{cog|ae|𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀}} Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda) Head templates: {{en-noun}} meed (plural meeds)
  1. (now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award. Tags: archaic, literary
    Sense id: en-meed-en-noun-CV2avb8W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 1 9 4 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 54 2 10 7 7 5 7 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 67 2 7 5 5 4 5 5
  2. A gift; bribe.
    Sense id: en-meed-en-noun-x9oKJCVn
  3. (dated) Merit; worth. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-meed-en-noun-fyMJgveS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: meedful, meedless
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /miːd/ [General-American, UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-meed.wav Forms: meeds [present, singular, third-person], meeding [participle, present], meeded [participle, past], meeded [past]
Rhymes: -iːd Etymology: From Middle English meden, from Old English *mēdian (“to reward, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdōn, from Proto-Germanic *mizdōną (“to reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰ- (“to pay”). Cognate with German Low German meden (“to hire, lease, rent”), German mieten (“to rent”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|meden}} Middle English meden, {{inh|en|ang|*mēdian|t=to reward, bribe}} Old English *mēdian (“to reward, bribe”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*miʀdōn}} Proto-West Germanic *miʀdōn, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*mizdōną|t=to reward}} Proto-Germanic *mizdōną (“to reward”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*misdʰ-|t=to pay}} Proto-Indo-European *misdʰ- (“to pay”), {{cog|nds-de|meden|t=to hire, lease, rent}} German Low German meden (“to hire, lease, rent”), {{cog|de|mieten|t=to rent}} German mieten (“to rent”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} meed (third-person singular simple present meeds, present participle meeding, simple past and past participle meeded)
  1. (transitive) To reward; bribe. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-meed-en-verb-Kx-aTWFf
  2. (transitive) To deserve; merit. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-meed-en-verb-uoD0NVFT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: sosh meed
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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        "1": "sa",
        "2": "मीळ्ह",
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      },
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    },
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        "1": "sa",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ae",
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      "expansion": "Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda)",
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          "text": "For well ſhe wiſt,as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,her ſeruice,and her vtmoſt wealth.",
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          "ref": "1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Brought up in darkness, and the child of sin,\nYet, as the meed of spotless innocence,\nJust Heaven permitted her by one good deed\nTo work her own redemption, after death.",
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          "ref": "1829, Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress:",
          "text": "Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may here after operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars.",
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          "text": "1880, translation by Richard Francis Burton of Os Lusiadas, Canto IX, stanza 93 by Luís de Camões\nBetter to merit and the meed to miss,\nthan, lacking merit, every meed possess."
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          "ref": "1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “V. The Captain of Vlaye”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:",
          "text": "Nor, save for a circumstance presently to be named, could even the Abbess's sullen curiosity have withheld a meed of admiration as the panorama unfolded itself before her.",
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          "ref": "1936, Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders:",
          "text": "[Poirot continued,] \"And here a full meed of praise is due to Hastings, who made a simple and obvious remark to which no attention was paid.\"",
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          "ref": "1953 October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 686:",
          "text": "The shed staff deserve their meed of praise for the result, but I believe that Driver Willie Bain is largely responsible.",
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        "(now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award."
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          "ref": "c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii], page 167, column 2:",
          "text": "[…]my meed hath got me fame:[…]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an, note 3687 on 33:16",
          "text": "In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour."
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        "(dated) Merit; worth."
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        "t": "to exchange"
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        "2": "Miete",
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        "3": "",
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      },
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        "2": "μισθός",
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        "2": "мьзда",
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "मीळ्ह",
        "tr": "mīḷhá"
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "मीढ",
        "tr": "mīḍhá"
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ae",
        "2": "𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀"
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      "expansion": "Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda)",
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          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 6:",
          "text": "For well ſhe wiſt,as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,her ſeruice,and her vtmoſt wealth.",
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          "ref": "1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Brought up in darkness, and the child of sin,\nYet, as the meed of spotless innocence,\nJust Heaven permitted her by one good deed\nTo work her own redemption, after death.",
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          "ref": "1829, Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress:",
          "text": "Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may here after operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars.",
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        },
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          "text": "1880, translation by Richard Francis Burton of Os Lusiadas, Canto IX, stanza 93 by Luís de Camões\nBetter to merit and the meed to miss,\nthan, lacking merit, every meed possess."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “V. The Captain of Vlaye”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:",
          "text": "Nor, save for a circumstance presently to be named, could even the Abbess's sullen curiosity have withheld a meed of admiration as the panorama unfolded itself before her.",
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          "ref": "1936, Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders:",
          "text": "[Poirot continued,] \"And here a full meed of praise is due to Hastings, who made a simple and obvious remark to which no attention was paid.\"",
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          "ref": "1953 October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 686:",
          "text": "The shed staff deserve their meed of praise for the result, but I believe that Driver Willie Bain is largely responsible.",
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        "(now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award."
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      "glosses": [
        "A gift; bribe."
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          "ref": "c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii], page 167, column 2:",
          "text": "[…]my meed hath got me fame:[…]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an, note 3687 on 33:16",
          "text": "In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour."
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        "(dated) Merit; worth."
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        "To reward; bribe."
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        "(transitive) To reward; bribe."
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        "(transitive) To deserve; merit."
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}

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