meseems

[mee-seemz]

verb (impersonal); past me·seemed. Archaic.

it seems to me.

Origin of meseems

1350–1400; Middle English me semeth; see me, seem, -s²

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But there is something else which, meseems, is of equal import.
Joshua, Complete
Georg Ebers
It has changed the countess much; and her husband, too, meseems.
Albrecht
Arlo Bates
And yet meseems I live and learn And lore of younglings yet must earn.
Poems by the Way
William Morris
And thine, meseems, last night did pray That ye might well be wed to-day.
Poems by the Way
William Morris
Whate'er betide, meseems we cannot do worse on the continent than in Hispaniola.
Vasco Nuez de Balboa
Frederick Albion Ober

British Dictionary definitions for meseems

meseems

verb past meseemed

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

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Word Origin and History for meseems

late 14c., me semeth, from me (pron.) + seem (v.).

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Examples from the Web for meseems

Historical Examples

But there is something else which, meseems, is of equal import.

It has changed the countess much; and her husband, too, meseems.

And yet meseems I live and learn And lore of younglings yet must earn.

And thine, meseems, last night did pray That ye might well be wed to-day.

Whate'er betide, meseems we cannot do worse on the continent than in Hispaniola.

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Word Origin and History for meseems

Origin of meseems