Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: meet – memorial
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meet, adj. [ME mete.]
Appropriate; describing a proper course of action.
meet (-ing, -s, -st, met), v. [OE.]
- Become acquainted with.
- Greet; see.
- Experience.
- Find; come to.
- Interact; join together.
- Visualize the company of another.
- Enter the presence of; come into company with.
- Face; confront.
- Collide; strike together.
- Experience; encounter passively.
- Encounter unexpectedly; come across by chance.
- Assemble; congregate; actively encounter.
meeting, verbal n. [see meet, v.]
- Reunion with; encountering again.
- Gathering; conference.
mellow, adj. [ME 'soft'.]
- Gentle; soft to the ear.
- Warm; easy on the eye.
melody, n. [OFr < late L. 'singing, chanting'.]
- Agreeable succession of sounds arranged according to rhythm, measure and consisting of a single voice.
- [Fig.] praise to God consisting of a joyful and thankful disposition, ascribing to him the honor due to his name.
melt, v. [OE.]
Dissolve; make liquid; liquefy; reduce from a solid to a liquid or flowing state by heat.
member (-s), n. [ME < Fr. < L. 'limb'.]
Individual of a community or society.
memento mori, n. [L. 'remember death'; 'be mindful of death'; 'remember that you have to die'.]
Warning of death; symbolic object of death; [fig.] bad news; sad tidings.
Memnon, proper n. [Gk, 'skilled builder'; possibly related to Egyptian Ammenemes or Amenhotep.]
Ethiopian king; son of Eos, the dawn goddess; demigod conqueror in Greek mythology; builder of the walled city Susa; hero killed by Achilles in the Trojan War but granted immortality by Zeus; [fig.] warrior; strong one.
memorial, adj. [L.]
- Memorable; pertaining to a deceased person; [fig.] monument; gravestone; remembrance.
- Commemorative; given in remembrance.