mete out justice
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mete out — v. (B) to mete out justice to everyone * * * (B) to mete out justice to everyone … Combinatory dictionary
mete out — administer, give according to the law or policy It was his duty to mete out justice in the colony … English idioms
mete out — verb administer or bestow, as in small portions administer critical remarks to everyone present dole out some money shell out pocket money for the children deal a blow to someone the machine dispenses soft drinks • Syn: ↑distribute, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
mete out — phr verb Mete out is used with these nouns as the object: ↑justice, ↑punishment … Collocations dictionary
mete — I. /mit / (say meet) verb (t) (meted, meting) 1. Obsolete to measure. –phrase 2. mete out, to distribute or apportion by measure; allot: *East Timor s influential Catholic bishop called today for an international tribunal to mete out justice to… …
mete — ► VERB (mete out) ▪ deal out or allot (justice, punishment, etc.). ORIGIN Old English, measure; related to MEET(Cf. ↑meet) … English terms dictionary
justice — n. rules of law administration of law 1) to administer, dispense, mete out, render justice 2) to obstruct justice 3) to pervert justice 4) divine; frontier (US); poetic; summary justice 5) justice prevails 6) a miscarriage; travesty of justice 7) … Combinatory dictionary
justice — noun 1 fairness ADJECTIVE ▪ distributive, economic, environmental, natural, racial (esp. AmE), social ▪ rough ▪ He saw it as rough … Collocations dictionary
mete — mete1 [mi:t] verb 1》 (mete something out) dispense or allot justice, punishment, etc. 2》 (in biblical use) measure out. Origin OE metan measure , of Gmc origin; related to meet2. mete2 [mi:t] noun historical … English new terms dictionary
mete something out — dispense or allot justice, punishment, etc. → mete … English new terms dictionary
HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
