单词 | seem good |
释义 | > as lemmasto seem (also appear) good (a) In impersonal constructions and (now chiefly) with non-referential it as subject and that-clause or infinitive as complement, as to seem (also appear) good, †to like good (cf. like v.1), †to think good (cf. think v.1). ΚΠ OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. iv. 266 Me is þus geþuht god [L. mihi uisum est bonum], þæt gehwilc man ete & drince & bruce þære blisse of his agnum weorce & gewinne. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5030 Ȝiff himm þinnkeþþ god. he maȝȝ Þe ȝifenn he[o]ffness blisse. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. i. 57 Glosynge þe Gospel as hem good likeþ. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. v. f. lxv That other shalle answere as hyr semeth good. c1500 Melusine (1895) 108 Madame, yf it lyke you good they doo soo, I assent gladly therto. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Confirmacion f. ix* It is thought good that none hereafter shall be confirmed, but suche [etc.]. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 95 To charge the enemie by land..if it seemed good to her Highnesse so to doe. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 41 It seemed good..to his Holinesse, not to canonize Garnet..but onely to beatificate him. 1793 E. Burke Let. 6 Nov. in Corr. (1963) VII. 473 It has not yet appeared good to the Politicks of Ministers here or abroad to permit [etc.]. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Bankrupt The Lord Chancellor grants a commission to such discreet persons as to him shall seem good, who are then styled commissioners of bankrupt. 1881 T. W. Fowle Poor Law iv. 86 Paupers who, as they must be maintained somehow, it was thought good should be set to work. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 3/1 A [golf] championship has never once been played in the West of England—and..it seemed good to the delegates to form a sub-committee..to look into the causes. 2010 P. Fisk In the Trees 237 I went to the government, and I put it to them that they should allow us to settle on this land. And it seemed good to the government too. They allowed me a thousand acres. to seem good a. transitive. To think, deem, imagine. With obj.-clause, object and infinitive or complement; also absol. to seem good = to think good (see good adj. 7b). Obsolete.The early examples in which the subject is a noun might be referred to 8a, from which this sense arose by conversion of the prefixed indirect object into the subject; but unequivocal instances with nominative pronoun occur often in the 15th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > suppose, surmise [verb (transitive)] ween971 readOE aweena1275 guessc1380 supposec1384 seemc1386 imaginec1405 presupposec1443 deem1470 surmise1509 suspectc1550 doubt1568 expect1592 s'pose1632 fancy1672 sus1958 c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 193 It was a ffairye, as al the peple semed. 1428 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 79 The residue of all my godes..I be-quethe to be distribued..like as myn executours seme best. c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 8054 She semed Darel Iusted wel. c1485 Digby Myst., Mor. Wisd. 610 These thynges be now so conuersaunt, we seme it no shame. 1493 Festivall (1515) 57 Euer whan the bysshop loked on her he semed her so fayre yt he was gretely tempted on her. 1512 R. Copland tr. Knyght of Swanne v. sig. Cj If you seme it good I shal make her to waste & sle the childe. a1525 G. Myll Spectakle of Luf in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 128 Ane askit him quhat he semyt of a woman? a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) sig. Kk7v Fynally, seyng that Rome was Rome, he was demanded how he semed therby. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie i. ii. 17 Possunt, quia posse videntur. They can because they seeme they can. < as lemmas |
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