Meanings
- archaichumorousmethinks
"Dwarf," said the king, " God save thee, too ! for thou methinkst are honest. Speak without fear, and do thy message featly."
1857, Alfred Elwes, trans. Mary Lafon, "Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende," Graham's illustrated magazine, publ. Watson, pg. 2032 more examples
If thou designest to be honest, methinkst thou sayst, Why should not Singleton's plot be over with thee, as it is with her brother?
1811, The history of Clarissa Harlowe: in a series of letters, Volume 3, J. Carpenter and William Miller, pg. 314And yet, methinkst, as Ajax did of old Defy the lightning, so thou, too, dost dare To ask to have our tariff, so I'm told, Revised somewhat.
1907, Nixon Waterman, “New England Apostrophes,”, in The New England Magazine, volume 36, page 346
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