Word Meanings - MEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
mieta, G. miethe hire, Goth. mizdo reward, Bohem. & Russ. mzda, Gr. 1. That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense. A rosy garland was the victor's meed. Spenser. 2. Merit or desert; worth. My meed hath got
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mieta, G. miethe hire, Goth. mizdo reward, Bohem. & Russ. mzda, Gr. 1. That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense. A rosy garland was the victor's meed. Spenser. 2. Merit or desert; worth. My meed hath got me fame. Shak. 3. A gift; also, a bride. Chaucer.
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- REWARDFUL
Yielding reward. - DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. - GARLANDLESS
Destitute of a garland. Shelley. - VICTORY
The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of Ant: defeat. Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Cor. xv. 54. God on our side, - RECOMPENSER
One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe. - MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
See INTERNODE - BOHEMIA
1. A country of central Europe. 2. Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3. She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia. Compton Reade. - WORTH
1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in - MERITORY
Meritorious. - MERITOT
A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy. - WORTHWHILE
Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness. - DESERTLESS
Without desert. - RECOMPENSEMENT
Recompense; requital. Fabyan. - REWARDLESS
Having, or affording, no reward. - MERITABLE
Deserving of reward. - WORTHINESS
The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her - WORTHFUL
Full of worth; worthy; deserving. Marston. - REWARD
To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded - WORTHY
A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. The blood of ancient worthies - VICTORIUM
A probable chemical element discovered by Sir William Crookes in 1898. Its nitrate is obtained byy practical decomposition and crystallization of yttrium nitrate. At. wt., about 117. - INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison. - ENGARLAND
To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney. - TEMERITY
Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - EMERITUS
Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's - SHOREWARD
Toward the shore. - MISDESERT
Ill desert. Spenser. - MERIT
deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - PETWORTH MARBLE
A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble. - RECOMPENSE
recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for; - PROMERIT
1. To oblige; to confer a favor on. Bp. Hall. 2. To deserve; to procure by merit. Davenant. - OVERMERIT
Excessive merit. Bacon.