addeem
verb/əˈdiːm/
Etymology From Middle English *ademen, from Old English ādēman (“to judge, adjudge, doom, deem, try, adjudicate”); equivalent to a- + deem.
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Archaic To adjudge; to try, test.
- So unto him they did addeeme the prise Of all that Tryumph.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Legacy is not addeemed by gift before execution of will.1892, Willard Smith Gibbons, Charles Hood Mills, William Henry Silvernail, Digest of the New York State reporter:
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- Their priests addeemed this blessed by pagan gods.2012, Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur:
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Obsolete To deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.