From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmetemete /miːt/ verb → mete something ↔ out→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
mete• Did the world always mete out just deserts?• The gods could be publicly called upon to mete out justice.• But as regards its prisons and its meting out of justice, it is clearly having difficulty living up to that image.Origin mete Old English metan “to measure” 