Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit of
methinks .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. of
methinks .
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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
methinks .
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Examples
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And we, methought, looked up to him from our hill: where the two words, _seemed_ and _methought_, have mollified the figure; and yet if they had not been there, the fright of the
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 John Dryden 1665
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Having checked it I can also offer the following "methought" which is also acceptable.
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Midianites, and "methought," says he (for so we speak in telling our dreams), "this rolling cake struck one of our tents" (perhaps one of the chief of their tents) "and with such violence that" (would you think it?) "it overturned the tent, forced down the stakes, and broke the cords at one blow, so that the tent lay along and buried its inhabitants," v. 13.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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And now, "methought," I'll take a walk; the evening is fresh, and not very chill. "
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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As Richard Lassels, a seventeenth-century guide for the Grand Tour said of fireflies, “Huge pretty, methought.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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I heard a voice say, and methought I heard the plunging and struggling of horses.
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As Richard Lassels, a seventeenth-century guide for the Grand Tour said of fireflies, “Huge pretty, methought.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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I heard a voice say, and methought I heard the plunging and struggling of horses.
Of phrasebooks, battleship lieutenants and lightning-struck postillions 2010
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As Richard Lassels, a seventeenth-century guide for the Grand Tour said of fireflies, “Huge pretty, methought.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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As Richard Lassels, a seventeenth-century guide for the Grand Tour said of fireflies, “Huge pretty, methought.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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"SECOND SERVANT: Nay, I knew by his face that there was something in him; he had, sir, a kind of face, methought,--I cannot tell how to term it."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 29, 2009