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Verb
deeme (third-person singular simple present deemes, present participle deeming, simple past and past participle deemed)
- Obsolete spelling of deem.
1775, Philip Thicknesse, A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777:"O you that bathe in courtlye bliss, "Or toyle in fortune's giddy spheare; "Do not too rashly deeme amisse "Of him that hides contented here.
1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:LIV Assure your selfe, it fell not all to ground;[*] For all so deare as life is to my hart, I deeme your love, and hold me to you bound: 480 Ne let vaine feares procure your needlesse smart, Where cause is none, but to your rest depart.
1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:When noone was come, that the broyling heate of the sunne had most power, we turned into a village to certaine of the theeves acquaintance and friends, for verily their meeting and embracing together did give me, poore asse, cause to deeme the same, and they tooke the trusse from my backe, and gave them part of the Treasure which was in it, and they seemed to whisper and tell them that it was stollen goods, and after that we were unladen of our burthens, they let us loose in a medow to pasture, but myne own horse and Miloes Asse would not suffer me to feed there with them, but I must seeke my dinner in some other place.