Mete-out Definition

Mete-out Sentence Examples

• Unhappily, despite its warm assurances of American friendship, this document met with a most hostile reception in Italy, where it was interpreted as an attempt to undermine the position of her spokesmen and so mete out to her a different measure from that prescribed by France and Britain.

• The oak of Vincennes, under which the king would sit to mete out justice, cast its shade over the whole political action of Louis IX.

• Children at this stage also mete out justice in an eye-for-an-eye manner or according to Golden Rule logic.