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- phrase archaic
meseems
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Examples
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Wherefore now I shall call him the Red Lad; and by that name meseemeth he shall be known far and wide. "
The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865
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Hearing these words the Shaykh smiled in his face and replied, “O my son, meseemeth thou art a stranger?”
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Wherefore, meseemeth to provide against this predicament, the best thing I can do, is to rise forthright and bash myself with the whip, so to use myself to beating.
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Quoth Musa, “I hear thee praise the Lord and hallow Him, and meseemeth thou rejoicest.”
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Wherefore, O my son, return presently and cast not thyself into destruction nor cast me with thee; for meseemeth thou hast no lot in her; so return whence thou camest lest our lives be lost.
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Then she turned to the broker and said to him, O thou refuse of brokers, meseemeth thou art mad, in that thou showest me this hour past, first to a pair of greybeards, in each of whom are two faults, and then thou proferrest me to my lord
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Presently one of the townsfolk accosted me and said to me, “O my lord, meseemeth thou art a stranger to these parts?”
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Whilst they were talking, behold, in came Nur al-Din, and the damsel looked at him and saw that his colour was changed and that he trembled and there appeared on his face signs of grief and repentance: so she said to him, “O my lord Nur al-Din, meseemeth thou hast sold me.”
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Wherefore, O King, thou wilt do well, meseemeth, to turn from this thought to that which I shall counsel thee.
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But now, if ye have lamented as much as ye deem befitteth warriors, let us tarry here no longer; for even yet meseemeth shall we be safer behind walls, now that our chief and captain is slain, I scarce know in what quarrel.
bilby commented on the word meseemeth
"Sir, said Ector, meseemeth your quest is done. And yours is not done, said Gawaine, but mine is done, I shall seek no further."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 13, 2009