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deemed
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The Divine Comedy -- translated by Cary
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- Myself I deem not worthy, and none else
Will deem me.†Canto 1.1-11 *deem = believe or judge - Myself I deem not worthy, and none else
Will deem me.†Canto 1.1-11 - To him my guide exclaim'd: "Perchance thou deem'st
The King of Athens here, who, in the world
Above, thy death contriv'd.†Canto 1.12-22 - But past doubt
(If well I mark) not long ere He arrived,
Who carried off from Dis the mighty spoil
Of the highest circle, then through all its bounds
Such trembling seiz'd the deep concave and foul,
I thought the universe was thrill'd with love,
Whereby, there are who deem, the world hath oft
Been into chaos turn'd: and in that point,
Here, and elsewhere, that old rock toppled down.†Canto 1.12-22 - Whom by the fashion of thy garb we deem
To be some inmate of our evil land.†Canto 1.12-22 - If from the fire
I had been shelter'd, down amidst them straight
I then had cast me, nor my guide, I deem,
Would have restrain'd my going; but that fear
Of the dire burning vanquish'd the desire,
Which made me eager of their wish'd embrace.†Canto 1.12-22 - There beneath
Searching with eye inquisitive, I mark'd
One with his head so grim'd, 't were hard to deem,
If he were clerk or layman.†Canto 1.12-22 - —"Master, thy word,"
I answer'd, "hath assur'd me; yet I deem'd
Already of the truth, already wish'd
To ask thee, who is in yon fire, that comes
So parted at the summit, as it seem'd
Ascending from that funeral pile, where lay
The Theban brothers?"†Canto 1.23deem'd = believed or judged - Then, yielding to the forceful arguments,
Of silence as more perilous I deem'd,
And answer'd: "Father!†Canto 1.23 - My leader part pursu'd
His way, the while I follow'd, answering him,
And adding thus: "Within that cave I deem,
Whereon so fixedly I held my ken,
There is a spirit dwells, one of my blood,
Wailing the crime that costs him now so dear."†Canto 1.23deem = believe or judge - Farther on,
If I misdeem not, Soldanieri bides,
With Ganellon, and Tribaldello, him
Who op'd Faenza when the people slept.†Canto 1.23misdeem = wrongly believed or wrongly judgedstandard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misdeem means wrong and reverses the meaning of deem. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse. - He in few
Thus answering spake: "Thou deemest thou art still
On th' other side the centre, where I grasp'd
Th' abhorred worm, that boreth through the world.†Canto 1.23deemest = believe or judgestandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou deemest" in older English, today we say "You deem." - Virgil to them began, "by that blest peace,
Which, as I deem, is for you all prepar'd,
Instruct us where the mountain low declines,
So that attempt to mount it be not vain.†Canto 2.1-11deem = believe or judge - If, as I deem, to view
His shade they paus'd, enough is answer'd them.†Canto 2.1-11 - Then like to one, upon whose head is plac'd
Somewhat he deems not of but from the becks
Of others as they pass him by; his hand
Lends therefore help to' assure him, searches, finds,
And well performs such office as the eye
Wants power to execute: so stretching forth
The fingers of my right hand, did I find
Six only of the letters, which his sword
Who bare the keys had trac'd upon my brow.†Canto 2.12-22deems = believes or judges - The curb
Is of a harsher sound, as thou shalt hear
(If I deem rightly), ere thou reach the pass,
Where pardon sets them free.†Canto 2.12-22deem = believe or judge - Three aged ones are still found there, in whom
The old time chides the new: these deem it long
Ere God restore them to a better world:
The good Gherardo, of Palazzo he
Conrad, and Guido of Castello, nam'd
In Gallic phrase more fitly the plain Lombard.†Canto 2.12-22 - No increase
Of territory hence, but sin and shame
Shall be his guerdon, and so much the more
As he more lightly deems of such foul wrong.†Canto 2.12-22deems = believes or judges - If other cause thou deem'dst for which I smil'd,
Leave it as not the true one; and believe
Those words, thou spak'st of him, indeed the cause.†Canto 2.12-22deem = believe or judge - Who would deem, that scent
Of water and an apple, could have prov'd
Powerful to generate such pining want,
Not knowing how it wrought?†Canto 2.23-33 - Albeit thy thirst may now
Be well contented, if I here break off,
No more revealing: yet a corollary
I freely give beside: nor deem my words
Less grateful to thee, if they somewhat pass
The stretch of promise.†Canto 2.23-33 - Onward a space, what seem'd seven trees of gold,
The intervening distance to mine eye
Falsely presented; but when I was come
So near them, that no lineament was lost
Of those, with which a doubtful object, seen
Remotely, plays on the misdeeming sense,
Then did the faculty, that ministers
Discourse to reason, these for tapers of gold
Distinguish, and it th' singing trace the sound
"Hosanna."†Canto 2.23-33misdeeming = wrongly believing or wrongly judgingstandard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misdeeming means wrong and reverses the meaning of deeming. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse. - "Thy reason slumbers, if it deem this height
And summit thus inverted of the plant,
Without due cause: and were not vainer thoughts,
As Elsa's numbing waters, to thy soul,
And their fond pleasures had not dyed it dark
As Pyramus the mulberry, thou hadst seen,
In such momentous circumstance alone,
God's equal justice morally implied
In the forbidden tree.†Canto 2.23-33deem = believe or judge - Thou no more admire
Thy soaring, (if I rightly deem,) than lapse
Of torrent downwards from a mountain's height.†Canto 3.1-11 - Then I: "What various here above appears,
Is caus'd, I deem, by bodies dense or rare."†Canto 3.1-11 - Sudden, as I perceiv'd them, deeming these
Reflected semblances to see of whom
They were, I turn'd mine eyes, and nothing saw;
Then turn'd them back, directed on the light
Of my sweet guide, who smiling shot forth beams
From her celestial eyes.†Canto 3.1-11deeming = believing or judging - "Cause too thou findst for doubt, in that it seems,
That spirits to the stars, as Plato deem'd,
Return.†Canto 3.1-11deem'd = believed or judged - Nor deem of any change, as less than vain,
If the last bond be not within the new
Included, as the quatre in the six.†Canto 3.1-11deem = believe or judge - As in a quiet and clear lake the fish,
If aught approach them from without, do draw
Towards it, deeming it their food; so drew
Full more than thousand splendours towards us,
And in each one was heard: "Lo!†Canto 3.1-11deeming = believing or judging - Aged and poor
He parted thence: and if the world did know
The heart he had, begging his life by morsels,
'T would deem the praise, it yields him, scantly dealt.†Canto 3.1-11deem = believe or judge - Not long that mood
Beatrice suffer'd: she, with such a smile,
As might have made one blest amid the flames,
Beaming upon me, thus her words began:
"Thou in thy thought art pond'ring (as I deem,
And what I deem is truth how just revenge
Could be with justice punish'd: from which doubt
I soon will free thee; so thou mark my words;
For they of weighty matter shall possess thee.†Canto 3.1-11 - Not long that mood
Beatrice suffer'd: she, with such a smile,
As might have made one blest amid the flames,
Beaming upon me, thus her words began:
"Thou in thy thought art pond'ring (as I deem,
And what I deem is truth how just revenge
Could be with justice punish'd: from which doubt
I soon will free thee; so thou mark my words;
For they of weighty matter shall possess thee.†Canto 3.1-11 - CANTO VIII
The world was in its day of peril dark
Wont to believe the dotage of fond love
From the fair Cyprian deity, who rolls
In her third epicycle, shed on men
By stream of potent radiance: therefore they
Of elder time, in their old error blind,
Not her alone with sacrifice ador'd
And invocation, but like honours paid
To Cupid and Dione, deem'd of them
Her mother, and her son, him whom they feign'd
To sit in Dido's bosom: and from her,
Whom I have sung preluding, borrow'd they
The appellation of that star, which views,
Now obvious and now averse, the sun.†Canto 3.1-11deem'd = believed or judged - Their concord and glad looks, wonder and love,
And sweet regard gave birth to holy thoughts,
So much, that venerable Bernard first
Did bare his feet, and, in pursuit of peace
So heavenly, ran, yet deem'd his footing slow.†Canto 3.1-11 - Open now thine eyes
To what I answer thee; and thou shalt see
Thy deeming and my saying meet in truth,
As centre in the round.†Canto 3.12-22deeming = believing or judging - For I have seen
The thorn frown rudely all the winter long
And after bear the rose upon its top;
And bark, that all the way across the sea
Ran straight and speedy, perish at the last,
E'en in the haven's mouth seeing one steal,
Another brine, his offering to the priest,
Let not Dame Birtha and Sir Martin thence
Into heav'n's counsels deem that they can pry:
For one of these may rise, the other fall.†Canto 3.12-22deem = believe or judge - Thou dost deem thy thoughts to me
From him transmitted, who is first of all,
E'en as all numbers ray from unity;
And therefore dost not ask me who I am,
Or why to thee more joyous I appear,
Than any other in this gladsome throng.†Canto 3.12-22 - The truth is as thou deem'st; for in this hue
Both less and greater in that mirror look,
In which thy thoughts, or ere thou think'st, are shown.†Canto 3.12-22 - Who in the erring world beneath would deem,
That Trojan Ripheus in this round was set
Fifth of the saintly splendours?†Canto 3.12-22 - They quitted not their bodies, as thou deem'st,
Gentiles but Christians, in firm rooted faith,
This of the feet in future to be pierc'd,
That of feet nail'd already to the cross.†Canto 3.12-22 - Whoso can deem, how fondly I had fed
My sight upon her blissful countenance,
May know, when to new thoughts I chang'd, what joy
To do the bidding of my heav'nly guide:
In equal balance poising either weight.†Canto 3.12-22 - Love no compulsion needs, but follows free
Th' eternal Providence, I well discern:
This harder find to deem, why of thy peers
Thou only to this office wert foredoom'd.†Canto 3.12-22 - Deem now,
What change in thee the song, and what my smile
had wrought, since thus the shout had pow'r to move thee.†Canto 3.12-22 - I saw the daughter of Latona shine
Without the shadow, whereof late I deem'd
That dense and rare were cause.†Canto 3.12-22deem'd = believed or judged - E'en as set down by the unerring style
Of thy dear brother, who with thee conspir'd
To bring Rome in unto the way of life,
Faith of things hop'd is substance, and the proof
Of things not seen; and herein doth consist
Methinks its essence,"—" Rightly hast thou deem'd,"
Was answer'd: "if thou well discern, why first
He hath defin'd it, substance, and then proof."†Canto 3.23-33 - And as a sleep is broken and dispers'd
Through sharp encounter of the nimble light,
With the eye's spirit running forth to meet
The ray, from membrane on to the membrane urg'd;
And the upstartled wight loathes that be sees;
So, at his sudden waking, he misdeems
Of all around him, till assurance waits
On better judgment: thus the saintly came
Drove from before mine eyes the motes away,
With the resplendence of her own, that cast
Their brightness downward, thousand miles below.†Canto 3.23-33misdeems = wrongly believes or wrongly judgesstandard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misdeems means wrong and reverses the meaning of deems. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse. - as one who, in a mirror, spies
The shining of a flambeau at his back,
Lit sudden ore he deem of its approach,
And turneth to resolve him, if the glass
Have told him true, and sees the record faithful
As note is to its metre; even thus,
I well remember, did befall to me,
Looking upon the beauteous eyes, whence love
Had made the leash to take me.†Canto 3.23-33deem = believe or judge
Definitions:
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(1)
(deemed) believed or judged
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)