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verb

Deem v. t. (past & past part. deemed; pres. part. deeming)

To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. (Obs.) "Claudius... Was demed for to hang upon a tree."

To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard. "For never can I deem him less him less than god."

Deem v. i.

To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose. "And deemest thou as those who pore, With aged eyes, short way before?"

To pass judgment. (Obs.)

noun

Deem n. Opinion; judgment. (Obs.)

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"Deem" Quotes from Famous Books

... that, desperate as your case seems to be, I participate in your sanguine hopes? I do not deem them entirely romantic, but share in that which the phlegmatic would call the frenzy of your mind; and half-persuade myself that you will finally ...

— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

... The passage in the thirteenth essay is the more notable in itself, being likewise a protest against human self-sufficiency, though the bearing of the illustration is directly reversed. Here he derides man's conceit: "We entertain and carry all with us: whence it followeth that we deem our death to be some great matter, and which passeth not so easily, nor without a solemn consultation of the stars." Then follow references to Caesar's sayings as to his star, and the "common foppery" as to the sun mourning his ...

— Montaigne and Shakspere • John M. Robertson

... the reformer were not exactly adapted to turn from him the wrath of the idol worshipers. They more likely added fuel to the hot anger burning in Boston against him. Three weeks passed after his departure from the city, and his friends did not deem it safe for him to return. Toward the end of the fourth week of his enforced absence, against which he was chafing not a little, an incident happened in Boston which warned him to let patience have ...

— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke

... aside; and that if it should come to a rising in the land, there would be many that would flock unto his standard and the main of them because of the love they had borne to his father. It would bring thee the greatest ill-chance shouldst thou slay thy kinsman, for in such case all men would deem him blameless. Nor will I counsel thee to become a lesser king than was Gorm thy father; he also very much increased his realm, but in no wise diminished it.' Then said the King: 'What then is thy counsel, Hakon? Wouldst thou that I should divide ...

— The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) • Snorri Sturluson

... deem it any part of genius to neglect his family, forget to pay his butcher's bill, and ignore the claim of his tailor. His ample house and neat atelier, at the north end of Eagle street, in the city of Albany, are the fruit of his patient and inspiring toil—his chisel has won him moderate fortune ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol V. Issue III. March, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

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