deems

Verb

deem (third-person singular simple present deems, present participle deeming, simple past and past participle deemed)

1. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
   • She deemed his efforts insufficient.

   Synonyms:

   consider

2. (ambitransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
   • It may ſeeme a rude diſpoſition that ſorteth not with the quality of the age; and pollicy deemeth that vertue a vice, that modeſty, ſimplicity, that reſolotenes, diſſolutenes, that conformeth not it ſelfe with a ſupple and deft correſpondence to the preſent time.1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe...
3. (obsolete, transitive) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
   • [Section] 39. Being found by a constable on a highway, street, or public place, suspected of coming from land where he has been unlawfully in search or pursuit of game, and game or nets, &c. being found in his possession or in a cart, &c.,—the justices deeming the game unlawfully obtained from some...1872, George C[olwell] Oke, “The Synopsis of Offences, etc. within the Provisions of the 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43”, in The Magisterial Synopsis: A Practical Guide for Magistrates, Their Clerks, Attornies...

   Synonyms:

   adjudge, condemn, rule on, adjudicate, arbitrate, doom, hear, judge, settle, try

4. (obsolete, transitive) To adjudge, to decree.
   • And it is hereby enacted, that in any zillah, in which the Governor in Council of Fort St. George deems it expedient to establish the zillah court, and the court or courts under subordinate judges or principal sudder ameens, at separate stations, it shall be competent to the said Governor in...1843, “Act No. VII. of 1843”, in East India. Acts Passed by the Honourable the President of the Council of India, and by the Right Honourable the Governor-General, for 1843; […] (Accounts and Papers...

   Synonyms:

   declare, ordain

5. (obsolete, transitive) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).

   Synonyms:

   judge

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