Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb It seems to me.
from The Century Dictionary.
- It seems to me. See
methinks .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Poetic It seems to me.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- phrase archaic it seems to me
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fair Female Correspondents of literature, Yea -- meseems to look forward even now and behold thee, the "Amelia" of Georgia -- May you be its fondest boast.
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854 2008
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Both writers have expressed themselves well, but meseems each has secured, as often happens, a fragment of the truth and holds it to be the whole
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Ibrahim son of al-Kasib heard these words, he bowed his head awhile in thought and al-Sandalani said to him, O my son, I have notseen in Baghdad a fairer than thou, and meseems that, when she seeth thee, she will love thee.
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Said the old man, “O my son, meseems thou weepest for the damsel who sailed yesterday with the Frank?”
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But now Atra lays a hand kindly on her shoulder and stays her, and says: Now meseems the walls of the Wailing – Tower, for so it hight, have no ears to hear, and we may talk together.
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So she spake, and he stood up stark and stern, and so departed, and kissed her not again; though meseems she would have suffered him had he offered it.
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But now meseems I grow more timid than a crouching hair,
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And meseems thou wilt not have come hither by her leave, or thou wouldst be in other guise than this; so that belike thou wilt be the runaway of thy mistress.
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Then she spake after a while: Dear friend, I had it in my mind to say to thee many things that meseems were sage, but now neither will the thought of them come into my mind, nor the words into my mouth.
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And specially shalt thou bid Atra unto me; for meseems she is so wise already that I may learn her more wisdom, and put that into her heart which may solace her and make her to cease from fretting her own heart, and from grief and longing overmuch.
roseandivy commented on the word meseems
Said while steepling the fingers and arching an eyebrow.
March 19, 2008