MEET Copy link • MEET 1. adj., Vid: FIT. 2. v. By accident, offendere aliquem (to hit anybody or anything accidentally; of persons or things; hence, to meet): incurrere in aliquem or aliquid (of persons or things; to run against; hence, to meet): incidere in aliquem (to fall in with a person). (The words are found in this connection and order.) incurrere atque incidere in aliquem: occurrere alicui (to run against him; to meet) : se obviam ferre or efferre (of the person who meets us). To encounter, obviam ire: occurrere: occursare: se obviam ferre or efferre [SYN. in ENCOUNTER]: concurrere or congredi cum aliquo (fight with). To meet death fearlessly, acriter se morti offerre: promte necem subire (of a violent death): to meet danger, periculo obviam ire, se offerre, se opponere, or objicere: wherever we go, some historical recollection meets us, quācumque ingredimur in aliquam historiam vestigium ponimus (Cic.): sometimes convenire (to have an interview with: Naucrates, quem convenire colui, in navi non erat, Plaut.): to meet anybody’s objections, quae aliquis contra dicit, refellere. MEET WITH, TRANS., (a) OBTAIN, RECEIVE. [Vid: these words.] (b) to have anything happen to one, contingere aliquem (of good things): accidere alicui (of evils): to meet with opposition, impugnari (of an opinion): to meet with a repulse, recusari: I meet with a misfortune, malum mihi accidit [Vid: HAPPEN]: INTRANS., In a friendly manner, convenire or congredi inter se (purposely): concurrere inter se (accidentally). In a hostile manner, (inter se) concurrere (of corporeal substances, or of combatants): (inter se) congredi (of two combatants or two armies): signa inter se conferre: cum infestis signis concurrere (of two armies): collidi inter se (of ships running against each other). IMPROPR., Meet together, (a) PROP., coire: convenire: cogi: se congregare: confluere: frequentes convenire. [SYN. in ASSEMBLE.] (b) Figuratively, i. e., to concur [Vid: CONCUR]: many causes seem to have met together, multae causae convenisse unum in locum atque inter se congruere videntur (Cic.).