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[mi-thingks] 
–verb (impersonal); past me⋅thought. Archaic.
| it seems to me. |
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| me·thinks (mĭ-thĭngks') intr.v. Past tense me·thought (-thôt') Archaic It seems to me. [Middle English me thinkes, from Old English mē thyncth : mē, to me; see me + thyncth, it seems; see tong- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Methinks
Me*thinks"\, v. impers. [imp. Methought.] [AS. [thorn]yncan to seem, m[=e] [thorn]ynce[eth], m[=e] [thorn][=u]hte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G. d["u]nken to seem, denken to think, and E. think. See Me, and Think.] It seems to me; I think. See Me. [R., except in poetry.] In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. --Spenser.
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methinks
O.E. me þyncð "it seems to me," from me, dat. of I, + þyncð, third pers. sing. of þyncan "to seem," reflecting the O.E. distinction between þyncan "to seem" and related þencan "to think," which bedevils modern students of the language (see think). The two words were constantly confused, then finally merged, in M.E.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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