Addeem
Origin
From Middle English *ademen, from Old English ÄdÄ“man ("to judge, adjudge, doom, deem, try, adjudicate"); equivalent to - + deem.
Full definition of addeem
Verb
- (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.
- (transitive) To deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.