meseems, impers. v. arch.
(miːˈsiːmz)
Also meseemeth. pa. tense meseemed.
[Orig. two words, me (dative: see me pron.1 2 a) and seems 3rd pers. sing. of seem v. Cf. methinks.]
It seems to me. (Used with dependent clause or parenthetically.)
| c 1400 Mandeville (1839) v. 61, I seyde..that thei diden synne, to hide Goddis Myracle, as me seemed. 1487 Caxton Bk. Gd. Manners iv. v. (c 1515) I vj, And me semeth y{supt} the partye that forfayteth his maryage dooth agaynst the lawe of nature. 1564 Haward Eutropius To Rdr. 1 For which causes (me semes) I have taken upon mee..a hard enterprize. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 68 It were a comfort vnto vs all to see you, hauing beene as me seemeth very long absent. 1627 W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 71 Mee seemes hee makes it something more excellent then Faith it selfe. 1850 Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. ii. (1872) 47 Meseems I could discover fitter objects of piety! 1859 Tennyson Elaine 672 For they talk'd, Meseem'd, of what they knew not. 1876 Morris Sigurd (1877) 307 Meseemeth this is the hour when men array the dead. |