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addeem

/əˈdiːm/

verb

To adjudge; to try, test.

OriginMiddle English *ademen ← Old English ādēman →

First used 8th c.Scrabble 10

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Meanings

verbaddeem (third-person singular simple present addeems, present participle addeeming, simple past and past participle addeemed)

present singular third person addeems · participle present addeeming · participle past addeemed · past addeemed

archaictransitiveTo adjudge; to try, test.First known use 8th c.
Their priests addeemed this blessed by pagan gods.
2012, Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur
2 more examples
So unto him they did addeeme the prise Of all that Tryumph.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Legacy is not addeemed by gift before execution of will.
1892, Willard Smith Gibbons, Charles Hood Mills, William Henry Silvernail, Digest of the New York State reporter
obsoletetransitiveTo deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.

Origin

Old Englishādēman“to judge, adjudge, doom, deem, try, adjudicate”
Middle English*ademen
Englishaddeem

From Middle English *ademen, from Old English ādēman (“to judge, adjudge, doom, deem, try, adjudicate”); equivalent to a- + deem.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with addeem

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APA

addeem. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/addeem

MLA

“addeem.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/addeem. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “addeem,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/addeem.

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