meseems
Americanverb
past
meseemed-
it seems to me.
verb
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archaic (tr; takes a clause as object) it seems to me
Etymology
Origin of meseems
Example Sentences
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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)
To go back the way we came is a four leagues march; we all be wearied and for-done, and meseems 'twere better to go forward two leagues into the forest.
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
"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
She turns to her companion: “Thou art a mighty warrior, O Dermot, in battle and sieges and forays, yet meseems that this drop of water is bolder than thou.”
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
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