addeem

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English *ademen, from Old English ādēman (“to judge, adjudge, doom, deem, try, adjudicate”); equivalent to a- +‎ deem.

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Rhymes: -iːm

VerbEdit

addeem (third-person singular simple present addeems, present participle addeeming, simple past and past participle addeemed)

(transitive, now rare, archaic) To adjudge; to try, test. [from 8th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  So unto him they did addeeme the prise / Of all that Tryumph.
- 1892, Willard Smith Gibbons; Charles Hood Mills; William Henry Silvernail, Digest of the New York State reporter:
  Legacy is not addeemed by gift before execution of will.
- 2012, Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur:
  Their priests addeemed this blessed by pagan gods.
(transitive, obsolete) To deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.

AnagramsEdit

demade, meaded