Meanings
present singular third person meetens · participle present meetening · participle past meetened · past meetened
- ambitransitivearchaicTo make or become suitable.
Self-discipline meetens. Sorrow meetens. Suffering meetens.
1887, Henry Donald M. Spence- Jones, The pulpit commentary2 more examples
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
Origin
From meet (“fit, suitable”) + -en.
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