meseems

American  

[mee-seemz] / miˈsimz /

verb

Archaic.

past

meseemed

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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Etymology

Origin of meseems

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

Example Sentences

An awful, a tremendous night is this, meseems!

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

By the devil and all his myrmidons, citizen!" he said, as soon as he had recovered his breath, "meseems you have tumbled to my meaning as a pig into a heap of garbage.

From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

"Nay, sir, it is already bespoke for our gracious queen, though meseems the sovereignty belongs rightly to Mirandola, who now sits aloft, with a most forlorn and wistful look."

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert

"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 Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Accordingly, the Gauls, after innumerable insurrectionary efforts—" "Well, my boy, meseems the method is not new, but ever is the right one.

From The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 by Sue, Eug?ne