Meaning of methought | Babel Free

Definitions

simple past and past participle of methinks

archaic, form-of, participle, past

Examples

“The clouds methought would open, and ſhew riches / Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd / I cri'de to dreame againe.”

“Methought I saw my late espoused saint / Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,”

“Methought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and profundity.”

“Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by angels whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.”

“And then methought my dream changed, and two Great Giants with heading-axes came striding over the bed, […]”

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