meeten
verbEtymology From meet (“fit, suitable”) + -en.
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Ambitransitive, Archaic To make or become suitable.
- Let us accustom ourselves to contemplate the most eminent examples of this spirit, that, by daily imitating them, we may, through grace, be progressively "meetening" for the participation of their inheritance.1817, Francis Augustus Cox, Female Scripture biography:
- … and were long proved by a series of various and often afflictive providences, in order to make known what was in their hearts, that they might be humbled ; and in other respects, meetened for the good which was prepared for them in their latter end, …1824, David Russell (of Dundee.), A familiar survey of the Old and New Covenants
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- Self-discipline meetens. Sorrow meetens. Suffering meetens.1887, Henry Donald M. Spence- Jones, The pulpit commentary: