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meseems

American  
[mee-seemz] / miˈsimz /

verb

Archaic.
  • meseemed
    past
  1. it seems to me.


meseems British  
/ mɪˈsiːmz /

verb

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of meseems

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


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"So meseems it pleaseth mighty Zeus, who hath laid low the head of many a city, yea, and shall lay low, for his is the highest power."

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

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

From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Frederick Albion Ober

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 deem that hour perchance Was but a mirror To show them Earth's romance And draw them nearer: A mirror where, meseems.

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

In either case, meseems, chance is bound to favour us.

From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

Wise was that, meseemed, for words were again come into the witch’s howls, and I heard her: Ah, long may ye be playing with the chains, long! for now the house rumbleth toward its fall. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

"Sir," saith Perceval, "For whom have you done such service? meseemed that the corpse lay therewithin for whom the service was ordained."

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans

I fell asleep and meseemed I saw him, as in a dream, clad in white clothes and walking in a garden full of running waters.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne

"Not fewer, meseemed, 314 W. 5107. than thirty hundred fully armed chariot-fighters were they, even ten hundred and twenty hundred fully armed chariot-fighters," macRoth made answer.

From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Joseph Dunn

As soon as he saw me sitting at the door, he dismounted and coming up to me, saluted and embraced me; and meseemed I embraced the world and all that therein is.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne

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