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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To regard as; consider: synonym: consider.
  • intransitive verb To suppose or believe.
  • intransitive verb To have an opinion; think.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Opinion; judgment; surmise.
  • noun A tithe; a tenth.
  • To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose: as, he deemed it prudent to be silent.
  • To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; account: as, Shakspere is deemed the greatest of poets.
  • To judge; pass judgment on; sentence; doom.
  • To adjudge; decree.
  • To dispense (justice); administer (law).
  • To have an opinion; judge; think.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To pass judgment.
  • noun obsolete Opinion; judgment.
  • transitive verb obsolete To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn.
  • transitive verb To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, obsolete To judge; pass judgement on; sentence; doom.
  • verb transitive, obsolete To adjudge; decree.
  • verb transitive, obsolete To dispense (justice); administer (law).
  • verb transitive To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose.
  • verb transitive To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account.
  • verb intransitive To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.
  • noun An opinion; judgement; surmise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English demen, from Old English dēman; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English demen, from Old English dēman ("to judge, determine, reckon, decide, decree, sentence, condemn, assign, deem, consider, think, estimate, compute, examine, prove, doom, condemn, praise, glorify, tell, declare"), from Proto-Germanic *dōmijanan (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰē-, *dʰeh₁- (“to set, put, stell, lay”). Cognate with North Frisian dema ("to judge, recognise"), Dutch doemen ("to condemn, foredoom"), Danish dømme ("to judge"), Swedish döma ("to judge, sentence, condemn"), Russian Думать (dùmat, "I think, consider, judge") and probably Albanian them ("I say, believe, deem"). Related to doom.

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  • bilby commented on the word deem

    Scots - woman. Related to dame.

    December 26, 2007

  • mn commented on the word deem

    which were deemed to be strategically important for patient care and clinical practice.

    January 12, 2010

  • yarb commented on the word deem

    As opposed to impatient care?

    January 12, 2010

  • dontcry commented on the word deem

    Imagine the conversation about a female patient in Scotland...

    January 12, 2010