meseems

American  

[mee-seemz] / miˈsimz /

verb

Archaic.

• meseemed
  past

1. it seems to me.

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meseems British  

/ mɪˈsiːmz /

verb

1. archaic (tr; takes a clause as object) it seems to me

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Other Word Forms

Conjugated Forms

Present

• meseems
  simple

Past

• meseemed
  simple

Etymology

Origin of meseems

1350–1400; Middle English me semeth; see me, seem, -s ²

Example Sentences

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meseems meseemed

Call it treachery if you must, yet when I look back on that night, meseems I am worthy of your pity.

From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

I now call all things to mind, and meseems I began belonging to thee from the very first moment, when I had not yet had time to behold thee, but had merely heard thy voice.

From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

There is nothing that hallows my mind, meseems, Like the night with its moon and its stars above; 'Tis a mystical lily whose golden gleams Fulfill my being with love.

From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

Then Sir Ewaine said: "Sir, let us go down to yonder place and seek lodging at that fair castle, for meseems that must be a very pleasant place to abide for the coming night."

From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Howard Pyle

"That being so, sir," she resumed once more, "meseems that you should be equally ready to do me service and to ask me no questions, provided that I pay you well."

From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

When I beheld that lock, into my soul Rushed a familiar image, and meseemed Orestes must have laid that token there.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Goldwin Smith

Wherewith I raised my eyes to her and saw a rosy palm in a saffron sleeve, meseemed it was the full moon rising splendid in the cloudy East.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

One single oaken pillar, so I dreamed, Stood of my father's house; and hair, meseemed, Waved from its head all brown: and suddenly A human voice it had, and spoke.

From The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Gilbert Murray

Mother dear, when that maiden came and talked of tilts and lances, meseemed that I recollected somewhat.

From The Herd Boy and His Hermit by Charlotte Mary Yonge

And meseemed that the sleekness and fairness of her body was worsened since yesterday, and she was pale and haggard, and her eyes were wandering and afraid.

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris