meseems

[ mee-seemz ]

/ miˈsimz /

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

it seems to me.

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Origin of meseems

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

Words nearby meseems

mescaline, mesclun, mesdames, mesdemoiselles, mesectoderm, meseems, mesembryanthemum, mesencephalic, mesencephalic flexure, mesencephalic tegmentum, mesencephalitis

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How to use meseems in a sentence

My very bones seem on the rack; My spirit wails aloud; meseems My heart is thronged with funeral dreams.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life|Thophile Gautier
Meseems I see them, with their hairy and shriveled faces, their cats' claws, their goats' hoofs and their eyes flashing fire.
The Poniard's Hilt|Eugne Sue
There was noise in it, smoke without fire:—privately meseems, a little the emblem of herself!
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
Were I a knight meseems I would rather serve a lady nearer at hand than at so great distance as that of which thou speakest.
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table|Howard Pyle

Therewith she listened for a little while, and then she said: "Meseems that must be the voice of some angel that is singing."
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table|Howard Pyle

British Dictionary definitions for meseems

meseems

/ (mɪˈsiːmz) /

verb past meseemed

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

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