meed
A gift; bribeA gift; bribe.
» History's page hath yielded to thee her meed of praise.
Значение
значений: 3A gift; bribe.
(устаревшее)Merit; worth.
(архаичное, книжное)A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award.
1880, translation by Richard Francis Burton of Os Lusiadas, Canto IX, stanza 93 by Luís de Camões Better to merit and the meed to miss, than, lacking merit, every meed possess.
- a fitting reward
Примеры
предложений: 1History's page hath yielded to thee her meed of praise.
Происхождение
From Middle English meede, mede, from Old English mēd, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward,From Middle English meede, mede, from Old English mēd, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).
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