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Unbeseeming; not fit or becoming.

The quality or state of being unseemly; unbecomingness. Udall.

Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.

perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.

, as the feelings or passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

To declare or assert positively. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem To thee, who hast thy dwelling here on earth. Milton.

To dress; to attire; to adorn. [Obs.] Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised. Spenser.

-- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.] Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. Shak.

sterial; venerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.

ng to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun. To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay. What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. Apparent ho…

Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.

The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. Which apparition, it seems, was you. Tatler.

To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Matt. vi. 16.

urpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.

tted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.

A calling to an account to faults; accusation. In the sixth satire, which seems only an Arraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition. Dryden.

tinct particulars. If all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable. Jer. Taylor.

Chaucer. I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance. Milton.