单词 | remeet |
释义 | remeetv. 1. transitive. To meet (a person or thing) again. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > meet or encounter [verb (transitive)] > again remeet1609 rejoin1611 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica v. xxvi. 113 The Centaures boldly fight, the Prince of Troy Shines both in Armes and valour aboue all, Hauing both Art and strength his steele to imploy, And many halfe-dead limbes about him sprall, To him Ihoue makes, and is re-met with ioy. 1816 R. Story Harvest ii. 66 And, hook on arm, re-meeting all, With jest, and laugh, and merry lay, So blithe they went their homeward way. 1883 G. H. Calvert Sibyl 21 After a calm sleep's rest, He went forth to re-meet The lifeful Sun, and tideful Ocean. 1928 Observer 24 June 8/6 (advt.) So tersely..does he tell his tale that within 300 pages we re-meet the classical heroes of three generations. 1970 I. Petite Meander to Alaska i. viii. 77 As usual, in travelling north to Alaska, I had the feeling of remeeting spring. 2006 R. Greenfield T. Leary xx. 239 ‘I knew he liked me and I liked him,’ she recalled, ‘but I had just remet a musician I'd had a terrible crush on years earlier.’ 2. To meet again. a. intransitive. Reciprocally, without following preposition. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > meet or encounter [verb (intransitive)] > again remeeta1644 a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) iii The time will come, wherein We shall remeet, and never part agin. a1843 J. Nicholson Poet. Wks. (1876) 220 Where sects of various creeds, like summer flies, Meet and re-meet. 1859 F. Mills in Athenæum 9 July 49 Ere the shining valves remeet. 1930 P. Bowles Let. 5 Feb. in In Touch (1994) 34 Your paternal feeling is no doubt due to your superior intellect, a thing which manifests itself more forcefully on paper than in the ether. Perhaps..you will lose some of the sensation when we remeet. 1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action iii. 71 A number of..forms..which then remet when the ice retreated. 2007 Sunday Mail (S. Austral.) (Nexis) 18 Mar. 99 Sarah-Jane St Clair is gorgeous and the perfect foil for Winter's affections and intentions as they remeet on the dance floor and finally slip under the bed covers. b. intransitive. With with. ΚΠ a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 11 When I re-met with them they had been so lost to my memory, that [etc.]. 1836 Mag. Pop. Sci. 1 361 We soon re-met with the before-named ravine, or hollow, and followed it. 1919 M. H. Bradley Wine of Astonishment x. 85 The return to the city was a relief from this restraint, and it was a rapture of remeeting with her lover. 1996 L. W. Smith Confession in Novel iii. 84 Alyosha empties out the Christological significance of the resurrection, and instead values the event solely as an occasion to remeet with the boys and celebrate again their memories of the past. 2004 E. Roanes-Lozano et al. in B. Buchberger & J. A. Campbell Artific. Intelligence & Symbolic Computation 252 RAND researchers manually develop algorithms from ratings and re-meet with experts to settle inconsistencies. Derivatives reˈmeeting n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > again reconvention1641 remeeting1648 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Mv 'Tis to be doubted whether I next yeer, Or no, shall give ye a re-meeting here. 1684 London Gaz. No. 1994/3 At the remeeting of the said States..these Points will be farther spoken of. 1753 J. Newton Let. 26 Jan. in Lett. to Wife I. (1793) 160 The pains of absence, the pleasures of a re-meeting (if I may make a word,) and all the other endearments. 1769 E. Griffith Delicate Distress lxx, in R. Griffith & E. Griffith Two Novels II. 158 Painful as the hour of separation, was, the recollection of what I had formerly endured, from her entrance into the convent, with the fond hope of our re-meeting, in a few months, have abated its anguish. 1827 H. R. Mosse Woman's Wit & Man's Wisdom II. i.1 This circumstance must be attributed to the pleasure he experienced in the re-meeting with Mr. Maunsell, the visit of sir Archibald Cameron, and that of lord Sinclair. 1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 28 Dec. a14/1 A brave man and a brave girl had long since exchanged hearts, and if ever there was an hour of perfect happiness in this wicked world it was that first hour of their re-meeting. 1977 R. Mehta Journey with Death vi. 51 And in that region how can he count days and minutes of a re-meeting with us? 1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 June g1 The last scene is golden—lovely comedy and very poignant remeetings of lost sons and lost daughters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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