methinks

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I am ready to make it up between ye two To this they agreed, and he said:--"Vali, this methinks is the most likely way of bringing you together.

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  • I am ready to make it up between ye two To this they agreed, and he said:--"Vali, this methinks is the most likely way of bringing you together. —  Kormáks saga. English
  • Mountains of light around him rise While he in a golden ocean lies O, Glorious Sun, in thy Palace of Light To behold thee methinks is a beautiful sight Algernon Sydney Grenfell Aged eight years Some of my brother's poems and hymns have been published in the school magazine, or printed privately; but he, too, has only published a Spanish grammar, a Greek lexicon, and a few articles in the papers.
  • In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • "Even you would scarcely, methinks, advise so small a band of men to make an open attack on five or six hundred savages I would not advise it," replied Thorward; "nevertheless, if it came to the worst I would do it. —  The Norsemen in the West
  • Father is vexed, methinks, at his owne Passion, and hath never, directlie, spoken, in my Hearinge, of what passed; but rayleth continuallie agaynst Rebels and Roundheads. —  Mary Powell ; Deborah's Diary
 

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  1. Middle English me thinkes, from Old English mē thyncth : , to me; see me + thyncth, it seems; see tong- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Middle English me thinketh, from Anglo-Saxon me thyncth, it seems to me: see me and think.
 

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