'To meet with' definitions:
Definition of 'To meet with'
From: GCIDE
- Meet \Meet\, v. t.
- 1. To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle. [1913 Webster]
- O, when meet now Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined ! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict. [1913 Webster]
- Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December. [1913 Webster]
- They . . . appointed a day to meet together. --2. Macc. xiv. 21. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite. [1913 Webster]
- To meet with. (a) To light upon; to find; to come to; -- often with the sense of unexpectedness. [1913 Webster]
- We met with many things worthy of observation. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] (b) To join; to unite in company. --Shak. (c) To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to meet with a loss. (d) To encounter; to be subjected to. [1913 Webster]
- Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince. --Rowe. [1913 Webster] (e) To obviate. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To meet with'
- Meet,
- Meeting,
- Meetly,
- Meetness,
- To be meet with,
- meet up with,
- Camp meeting,
- Class meeting,
- Conference meeting,
- Joint meeting,
- Mass meeting,
- Plymouth Meeting,
- Prayer meeting,
- Primary meeting,
- Protracted meeting,
- Town meeting,
- Vestry meeting,
- Watch meeting,
- board meeting,
- committee meeting,
- group meeting,
- lunch meeting,
- luncheon meeting,
- meet head on,
- meeting house,
- meeting of minds,
- meeting place,
- race meeting,
- revival meeting,
- sense of the meeting,
- solemn meeting,
- sports meeting,
- stockholders meeting,
- summit meeting,
- swim meet,
- swimming meet,
- track meet,
- Plymouth Meeting, PA,
- Praise-meeting,
- To make both ends meet,
- To meet half way,
- To meet one's maker,
- go-to-meeting,
- make ends meet,
- sunday-go-to-meeting