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English
Etymology
meet + -est
Verb
meetest
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of meet
Adjective
meetest
- superlative form of meet: most meet
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Antonio:
I am a tainted wether of the flock,
Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground; and so let me;
You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio,
Than to live still, and write mine epitaph.