addeem

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːm

Verb

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

1. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To adjudge; to try, test. [from 8th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.3:

     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.

2. (transitive) To deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.

Anagrams

• meaded