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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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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)

"It needs small consideration, meseems," said Myles Standish, impatiently.

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames

"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

"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 Lang, Andrew

I would do all for you, meseems,     But this, tho' this were happiness!

From Reincarnations by Stephens, James

And I touched none of the gold and silver that meseemed was there, lest it were only there of the subtlety of the devils, and because I would not be put out of my devotions.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

Truly spoken meseemed thy welcome till now," answered Cuchulain; "but to-day I put no more trust in it.

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

I hated the name, for meseemed that all women were dishonoured by your life.

From Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat by Ibsen, Henrik

She, to whom, as I am an honest woman, I would have confessed myself, so spiritually minded meseemed she was!

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

That made each bank, meseemed, and every bush Start into eagle-plumes?

From Kentucky Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

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