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▪ I. meeter|ˈmiːtə(r)|
[f. meet v. + -er1.]
One who attends or takes part in a meeting; † spec. in Quaker phraseology, a member of a particular ‘meeting’ or congregation.
1646Mass. Col. Rec. (1853) II. 185 Ye maior pt of those first meeters. 1682W. Rogers 7th Pt. Chr., Quaker 82 G. W. a Member of the Second-days Meeting..smooth'd up the Barbadoes Meeters with this Expression. a1713T. Ellwood Autobiog. (1765) 251 The whole Fines of such and so many of the Meeters as they should account poor. 1887E. F. Byrrne Heir without Heritage II. xi. 219 These early torchlight-meeters.
▪ II. meeter
obs. form of meter, metre. |