What is "meted out"

Usage examples of "meted out".

Do you suppose that we regret the punishment meted out to the Capuans, a punishment which they themselves cannot make a ground of complaint?

What fate lay in store for them or whether already it had been meted out to them he could not even guess, nor where, within that forbidding wall, they were incarcerated he could not know.

And when he had brought her back she would tell of his share in her abduction, and instead of the fortune mayhap the gallows would be meted out to him.

But perhaps Bulkezu deserved no better than the fate he had meted out to the many people he had enslaved and murdered.

He thought of all the wrongs he had committed, all the lives needlessly taken, all the cruelty and injustice he had meted out.

I could only conclude that it was divine punishment, meted out to me because I had accepted Challes's evil gift all those years before, and used it to the fullest, without the slightest hesitation.

Death was the only solution to their condition and it should have been meted out as swiftly as possible, in mercy to the families that had loved them.

The memory of the punishment meted out upon humankind for its past follies in this direction was sufficient to cause him to feel worried by the contents of Yoritomo's letter, but he had been even more disturbed by the way it had been written.

As one of the lieutenants raised the severed arm up high, another two rushed forward and the punishment was meted out on another murderer.

No sooner had Silver-Leg appeared on the scene than the others meted out to him the full measure of their vengeful justice.