LekhoriLekhoriA payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award.
For well ſhe wiſt,as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,her ſeruice,and her vtmoſt wealth.
A gift; bribe.
Merit; worth.
[…]my meed hath got me fame:[…]
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...
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