Sekirov Dictionary

deem

/diːm/

verb 5
noun 1
forms 7

verb5

•
To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
- She deemed his efforts insufficient.
•
To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
- And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before? / Think'st Beauty vanished from the coast / Of matter, and thy darling lost? — 1847
(no longer used) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
(no longer used) To adjudge, to decree.
(no longer used) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).

noun1

(no longer used) An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.

forms

deem'd · deemed · deemedst · deeming · deemeth · deems · deemest

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