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Definition of "methought" []

  • Archaic Past tense of methinks. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "methought" in a sentence
  • "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"
  • "Having checked it I can also offer the following "methought" which is also acceptable."
  • "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."
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