deem
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dēmen (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English dēman (“to decide, decree, deem”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to set, put”).
The word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”), Finnish tuomita (“to judge”). It is also related to doom.
Inflected forms:
form: deems
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deeming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deemed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deemed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: deem
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: deem
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: deemed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: deem
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: deemest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: deemed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: deemedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: deems
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deemeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: deemed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: deem
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: deemed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: deem
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: deemed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: deem
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: deeming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deemed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: She deemed his efforts insufficient.
To this sect belong also the Skakounui, or Jumpers. […] They refuse to take an oath, and will not bear arms, deeming it sinful to shed human blood.
gloss: To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: It may ſeeme a rude diſpoſition that ſorteth not with the quality of the age; and pollicy deemeth that vertue a vice, that modeſty, ſimplicity, that reſolotenes, diſſolutenes, that conformeth not it ſelfe with a ſupple and deft correſpondence to the preſent time.
[T]herefore had Abel and his works acceptance, when Cain and his had none, becauſe he was righteous, not ſo eſteemed of God while he was not ſo indeed (as T[homas] D[anson] deems) who becauſe he ſo does, deems that God (as himſelf) deems thoſe and theirs to be good and righteous, […]
[I]f a man doe really deem the weather to be cold, or that his body is diſtempered, he putteth on warmer cloathes, or taketh phyſick: although peradventure he is miſtaken in both: for his deeming them to be ſo, maketh him demeane himſelfe in ſuch ſort, as if really they were ſo.
So Chriſtian came up with him again, and ſaid, Sir, you talk as if you knew ſomething more than all the World doth; and if I take not my mark amiſs, I deem I have half a gueſs of you: Is not your name Mr. By-ends of Fair-ſpeech?
[T]hoſe [remedies] that have obtain'd the Name of Antiſcorbutick, Antiſcrophulous, Traumatick, Vulnerary or Healing Medicines, and ſuch as are deem'd Sweeteners of the Blood, and Correctors of Acrimony, […] have all in their turns been held in high Eſteem; […] Some think the Cure of a Phthiſis is to be compaſſed only by Alkalies; others by Acids; abundance of Phyſicians are of Opinion that no Good can be done in thi Diſeaſe without Opiates, which ſome deem very pernicious; […]
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?
Some deem it sweet to wander far abroad, / And view the beauties of another shore; / Some deem it sweet to shun affection's road, / And haunts of them whom once they did adore.
For example, record-breaking rainfall in the UK made February 2020 the wettest February on record, while July 2019 was deemed to be the warmest month on record worldwide.
gloss: To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: [Section] 39. Being found by a constable on a highway, street, or public place, suspected of coming from land where he has been unlawfully in search or pursuit of game, and game or nets, &c. being found in his possession or in a cart, &c.,—the justices deeming the game unlawfully obtained from some land.
gloss: To adjudge, to decree.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: And it is hereby enacted, that in any zillah, in which the Governor in Council of Fort St. George deems it expedient to establish the zillah court, and the court or courts under subordinate judges or principal sudder ameens, at separate stations, it shall be competent to the said Governor in Council, by an Order in Council, to authorize the session judge to take cognizance of all criminal cases subject ordinarily to the jurisdiction of the subordinate courts, […]
gloss: To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Synonyms: account
appraise
count
esteem
see
censure
consider
deem
hold
dub
find
interpret
judge
look upon
regard as
respect
think of
view as
Derived words: addeem
bedeem
deemer
deemster
dempster
fordeem
foredeem
misdeem
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