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Mere
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- 1 Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
"The mere thought of pineapple on pizza makes me want to throw up."
- 2 Pure, unalloyed . obsolete
"So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion[…]."
- 3 Nothing less than; complete, downright . obsolete
"If every man might have what he would[…]we should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion."
- 1 being nothing more than specified wordnet
- 2 apart from anything else; without additions or modifications wordnet
- 1 A village and civil parish in northern Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7381).
- 2 A small town and civil parish with a town council in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8132).
- 3 A sub-municipality in East Flanders, Belgium.
- 1 Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
"The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest."
- 2 A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond (formerly even a body of seawater), especially a broad, shallow one. (Also included in place names such as Windermere.) dialectal, literary
"When making for the Brooke, the Falkoner doth espie On River, Plash, or Mere, where store of Fowle doth lye:"
- 3 Alternative form of mayor and mair. alt-of, alternative, obsolete
- 4 A Maori war-club.
"As Owen prepared to dismiss the matter, Rule produced something that really caught the great man's eye – a greenstone mere, the warclub of the Maori."
- 5 a small pond of standing water wordnet
- 1 To limit; bound; divide or cause division in. obsolete, transitive
- 2 To set divisions and bounds. intransitive, obsolete
- 3 To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
"What chance is there of revising this example of case law to include an exception to the generally cited rule when an administrative boundary has been mered in the past to coincide with a private property boundary?"
Etymology
From Middle English mere, mer, from Anglo-Norman meer, from Old French mier, from Latin merus (“pure, unmixed, undiluted”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to sparkle, gleam”). Cognate with Old English āmerian, āmyrian (“to purify, examine, revise”). The Middle English word was perhaps influenced by or conflated with sound-alike Middle English mere (“glorious, noble, splendid, fine, pure”), from Old English mǣre (“famous, great, excellent, sublime, splendid, pure, sterling”), from Proto-West Germanic *mārī, from Proto-Germanic *mērijaz.
From Middle English mere, from Old English mǣre, ġemǣre (“boundary; limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mairiją (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”).
From Middle English mere, from Old English mǣre, ġemǣre (“boundary; limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mairiją (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”).
From Middle English mere, from Old English mere (“lake, pool,” in compounds and poetry “sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *mari (“sea”), from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognate with West Frisian mar, 'lake', Dutch meer, 'lake', Low German Meer, and German Meer, 'sea'. Non-Germanic cognates include Latin mare, Breton mor, and Russian мо́ре (móre). Doublet of maar and mare (“a large, dark plain; a lake on Titan”).
See mayor.
Borrowed from Māori mere (“more”).
# For the places in England: from Old English mere (“lake, pond”). # For the place in Belgium: from Middle Dutch mēre, from Old Dutch meri (“lake, sea”).
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