d. Occasionally would seem: cf. the impersonal use 7f.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have specific appearance [verb] > seem
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seema1225
seema1300
feel1581
would seem1754
1754 W. WarburtonView Bolingbroke's Philos.: Lett. 1st & 2ndii. 94 He has refused no arms, we see, to combat the Revelations God hath actually given. He would seem to relax a little of his severity, as to those which God may possibly give.