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addeem en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /əˈdiːm/
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To adjudge; to try, test.
   • Their priests addeemed this blessed by pagan gods. 2012, Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur:
   • 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:
2. (obsolete, transitive) To deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.

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