The pilgrim is well met; he will go to swell the contents of my vivarium.
Each had his clever tricks and plans, but they were well met by the other side.
“well met, Mr. Mauville,” he exclaimed, extending a bony hand that had fingers like the grip of death.
I read people quickly, and it seems to me that we are well met.
Tricks can be well met by tricks, but tricks are impotent against truth and sincerity.
In this book Dr. Napheys has well met a real need of the age.
"well met, fool," he cried, laying his hand on Dick's bridle rein.
Will might have been quite a hero if his pride had allowed him to be “hail fellow, well met.”
"We are well met," remarked the yeoman, presently, and speaking as if come to a decision.
Several people who knew him well met him, but he noticed no one.
Old English metan "to find, find out; fall in with, encounter; obtain," from Proto-Germanic *motjan (cf. Old Norse mæta, Old Frisian meta, Old Saxon motian "to meet," Gothic gamotijan), from PIE root *mod- "to meet, assemble." Related to Old English gemot "meeting." Meaning "to assemble" is from 1520s. Of things, "to come into contact," c.1300. Related: Met; meeting. To meet (someone) halfway in the figurative sense is from 1620s.
"proper, fitting," Old English gemæte, Anglian *gemete, "suitable, having the same dimensions," from Proto-Germanic *ga-mætijaz (cf. Old Norse mætr, Old High German gimagi, German gemäß "suitable"), from collective prefix *ga- + PIE *med- "to measure" (see medical (adj.)). The basic formation is thus the same as that of commensurate.
1831 in the sporting sense, originally of gatherings for hunting, from meet (v.).