bemeet

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ meet.

Verb

bemeet (third-person singular simple present bemeets, present participle bemeeting, simple past and past participle bemet)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To meet with.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant, or I shall so bemeet thee with thy yard as thou shall think on prating whilst thou liv'st!

Anagrams

• bemete, beteem