DEEM

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. [Obs.] Claudius . . . Was demed for to hang upon a tree. Chaucer.

2.
v.

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. Dryden.

3.
v.

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 Emerson.

4.
v.

To pass judgment. [Obs.] Spenser.

5.
n.

Opinion; judgment. [Obs.] Shak.

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