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Meseems

Meseems \Me*seems"\, v. impers. [imp. Meseemed.] It seems to me. [Poetic]

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meseems

late 14c., me semeth, from me (pron.) + seem (v.).

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meseems

alt. (context archaic English) it seems to me contraction (context archaic English) it seems to me

Usage examples of "meseems".

So that meseems thou mayest abide here in a life far better than wandering amongst uncouth folk, perilous and cruel.

Say that Nils Lykke were to love my daughter--as meseems were like enough.

June day, and meseems I know thy lack, and the slaking of it lieth somewhat nearer than Hampton under Scaur, which we shall not reach these two days if we go afoot all the way.

To say sooth, these two may well be adverse to each other, for I would not have thee hear so much of tidings as shall lead thee on, but rather I would have thee return with me, and not throw thy young life away: for indeed I have an inkling of what thou seekest, and meseems that Death and the Devil shall be thy faring-fellows.

O Sage of Swevenham, I were fain to fall in with the best of all those champions, a tall man and a proper, who, meseems, had good-will toward me, I know not why.

And yet, meseems something may follow it which is akin to grief: be content with things so done, my son.

The locks on these cells, meseems, are of the sort for which they are suited.

Whilst I know little of weaponry, meseems it would fetch a substantial price.

Elizabeth aslumber, but the sims also awake, and at frolic meseems, from the noises up the stairway.

I do resolve one day soon, however, to learn the multiplication table, which meseems should be of value at the Admiralty.

He hath graciously offered to attempt some role in the drama, but that, meseems, were a part too great.

Wolfings, and our very guest thou art, And meseems as I behold thee, that I look on a child of the Hart.

And meseems in his arms I slumbered: but I wakened again and stood Alone with the kindly woman, and gone was the goodly man, And athwart the hush of the Folk-hall the moon shone bright and wan, And the woman dealt with a lamp hung up by a chain aloft, And she trimmed it and fed it with oil, while she chanted sweet and soft A song whose words I knew not: then she ran it up again, And up in the darkness above us died the length of its wavering chain.

The memories are very dim, after so long a time, but meseems they are truly there, that I do recall such a thing.

More wonder it is, meseems, that none here have yet ever spoken their names to me.