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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To have as an opinion; judge: deemed it was time for a change.
  2. v. To regard as; consider: deemed the results unsatisfactory. See Usage Note at as1.
  3. v. To have an opinion; think. See Synonyms at consider.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose: as, he deemed it prudent to be silent.
  2. To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; account: as, Shakspere is deemed the greatest of poets.
  3. To judge; pass judgment on; sentence; doom.
  4. To adjudge; decree.
  5. To dispense (justice); administer (law).
  6. To have an opinion; judge; think.
  7. n. Opinion; judgment; surmise.
  8. n. A tithe; a tenth.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive, obsolete To judge; pass judgement on; sentence; doom.
  2. v. transitive, obsolete To adjudge; decree.
  3. v. transitive, obsolete To dispense (justice); administer (law).
  4. v. transitive To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose.
  5. v. transitive To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account.
  6. v. intransitive To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.
  7. n. An opinion; judgement; surmise.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn.
  2. v. To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.
  3. v. To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose.
  4. v. obsolete To pass judgment.
  5. n. obsolete Opinion; judgment.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view

Etymologies

  1. Middle English demen, from Old English dēman; see dhē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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