Word Meanings - METHINKS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

It seems to me; I think. See Me. In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser. (more info) me þynceedh, me þuhte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G.

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• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• REPUTATION
  The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case. 3. Specifically: Good reputation; favorable
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• METHINKS
  It seems to me; I think. See Me. In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser. (more info) me þynceedh, me þuhte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G.
• POETSHIP
  The state or personality of a poet.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SPECIALLY
  1. In a special manner; partcularly; especially. Chaucer. 2. For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• POETS' CORNER
  An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London; -- so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.
• GREATEN
  To become large; to dilate. My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.
• THINK
  confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem,
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• ESPECIALNESS
  The state of being especial.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.