"semen" meaning in Middle English

See semen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈseːmən/
Etymology: Inherited from Old English sēman, from Proto-West Germanic *sōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną. Etymology templates: {{etymid|enm|to sort out}}, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|enm|ang|sēman|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old English sēman, {{inh+|enm|ang|sēman}} Inherited from Old English sēman, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*sōmijan}} Proto-West Germanic *sōmijan, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*sōmijaną}} Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} semen, {{enm-verb|stem=sem}} semen (third-person singular simple present semeth, present participle semynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle semed) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|sem}} Forms: semeth [present, singular, third-person], semynge [participle, present], semed [first-person, indicative, participle, past, singular, third-person], weak [table-tags], semen [infinitive], to semen [infinitive], seme [infinitive], seme [first-person, present, singular], semed [first-person, past, singular], semede [first-person, past, singular], semest [present, second-person, singular], semedest [past, second-person, singular], semeth [present, singular, third-person], semed [past, singular, third-person], semede [past, singular, third-person], seme [present, singular, subjunctive], semed [past, singular, subjunctive], semede [past, singular, subjunctive], seme [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], semen [plural, present], seme [plural, present], semeden [past, plural], semed [past, plural], semede [past, plural], semeth [imperative, plural, present], seme [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], semynge [participle, present], semende [participle, present], semed [participle, past], ysemed [participle, past], seme [alternative], semi [alternative]
  1. (Early Middle English) To sort out; to resolve, subdue, or confirm. Tags: Early-Middle-English
    Sense id: en-semen-enm-verb-3qoiHkfM Categories (other): Early Middle English, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival), Thinking Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 16 6 8 19 10 6 6 22 6 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival): 21 8 11 17 8 8 8 10 8 Disambiguation of Thinking: 12 7 7 25 24 6 6 8 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈseːmən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse sœma, from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną, thus a doublet of Etymology 1. Etymology templates: {{etymid|enm|to seem}}, {{bor+|enm|non|sœma}} Borrowed from Old Norse sœma, {{der|enm|gem-pro|*sōmijaną}} Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} semen, {{enm-verb|stem=sem}} semen (third-person singular simple present semeth, present participle semynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle semed) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|sem}} Forms: semeth [present, singular, third-person], semynge [participle, present], semed [first-person, indicative, participle, past, singular, third-person], weak [table-tags], semen [infinitive], to semen [infinitive], seme [infinitive], seme [first-person, present, singular], semed [first-person, past, singular], semede [first-person, past, singular], semest [present, second-person, singular], semedest [past, second-person, singular], semeth [present, singular, third-person], semed [past, singular, third-person], semede [past, singular, third-person], seme [present, singular, subjunctive], semed [past, singular, subjunctive], semede [past, singular, subjunctive], seme [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], semen [plural, present], seme [plural, present], semeden [past, plural], semed [past, plural], semede [past, plural], semeth [imperative, plural, present], seme [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], semynge [participle, present], semende [participle, present], semed [participle, past], ysemed [participle, past], cemyn [alternative], seeme [alternative], seemen [alternative], seme [alternative], semy [alternative], semyn [alternative]
  1. To seem (to be); to look or be perceived as.
    Sense id: en-semen-enm-verb-IijDvfuc
  2. To appear; to become visible or discernible.
    Sense id: en-semen-enm-verb-KkCpgmxQ Categories (other): Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival), Appearance Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival): 21 8 11 17 8 8 8 10 8 Disambiguation of Appearance: 0 12 53 14 14 0 0 6 0
  3. To believe or assume; to develop a belief:
    To deem or consider; to form a judgement.
    Sense id: en-semen-enm-verb-SV17olD9 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival), Emotions, Human behaviour, Thinking Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 16 6 8 19 10 6 6 22 6 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival): 21 8 11 17 8 8 8 10 8 Disambiguation of Emotions: 4 0 7 51 4 0 0 0 34 Disambiguation of Human behaviour: 5 0 23 67 5 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Thinking: 12 7 7 25 24 6 6 8 6
  4. To believe or assume; to develop a belief:
    To consider to be appropriate; to judge as suitable.
    Sense id: en-semen-enm-verb-E0zKTkvN Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Thinking Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 16 6 8 19 10 6 6 22 6 Disambiguation of Thinking: 12 7 7 25 24 6 6 8 6
  5. To be appropriate or right; to suit or befit.
    Sense id: en-semen-enm-verb-jX6kXOfn
  6. (rare) To exist; to be extant. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-semen-enm-verb-OPv9ih~g
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: bisemen, seme, semly
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈseːmən/, /ˈsɛːmən/
Etymology: Inherited from Old English sīman, sēman, from Proto-West Germanic *saumijan; equivalent to sem (“load”) + -en (infinitival suffix). Etymology templates: {{etymid|enm|to load up}}, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|enm|ang|sīman|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old English sīman, {{inh+|enm|ang|sīman}} Inherited from Old English sīman, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*saumijan|id=load}} Proto-West Germanic *saumijan, {{af|enm|sem|-en|id1=load|id2=infinitival|pos2=infinitival suffix|t1=load}} sem (“load”) + -en (infinitival suffix) Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} semen, {{enm-verb|stem=sem}} semen (third-person singular simple present semeth, present participle semynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle semed) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|sem|c2=de|p_part2=0}} Forms: semeth [present, singular, third-person], semynge [participle, present], semed [first-person, indicative, participle, past, singular, third-person], weak [table-tags], semen [infinitive], to semen [infinitive], seme [infinitive], seme [first-person, present, singular], semed [first-person, past, singular], semede [first-person, past, singular], semde [first-person, past, singular], semest [present, second-person, singular], semedest [past, second-person, singular], semdest [past, second-person, singular], semeth [present, singular, third-person], semed [past, singular, third-person], semede [past, singular, third-person], semde [past, singular, third-person], seme [present, singular, subjunctive], semed [past, singular, subjunctive], semede [past, singular, subjunctive], semde [past, singular, subjunctive], seme [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], semen [plural, present], seme [plural, present], semeden [past, plural], semed [past, plural], semede [past, plural], semden [past, plural], semde [past, plural], semeth [imperative, plural, present], seme [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], semynge [participle, present], semende [participle, present], semed [participle, past], ysemed [participle, past], seme [alternative]
  1. To load up or with; to place upon.
    Sense id: en-semen-enm-verb-rcJ1TJIx Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival) Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 16 6 8 19 10 6 6 22 6 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival): 21 8 11 17 8 8 8 10 8
  2. (figuratively, rare) To be burdensome or grievous. Tags: figuratively, rare
    Sense id: en-semen-enm-verb-fDyXUa8C
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "sēman",
      "seman#Old_English"
    ],
    [
      "*sōmijan",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sōmijan"
    ],
    [
      "*sōmijaną",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sōmijaną"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_number": "1",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "to sort out"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymid"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "i",
        "3": "I"
      },
      "expansion": "I",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "sēman",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old English sēman",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "sēman"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Old English sēman",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*sōmijan"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *sōmijan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*sōmijaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old English sēman, from Proto-West Germanic *sōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "semeth",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semynge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to semen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ysemed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semi",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "semen",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "stem": "sem"
      },
      "expansion": "semen (third-person singular simple present semeth, present participle semynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle semed)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sem"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Early Middle English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 6 8 19 10 6 6 22 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 8 11 17 8 8 8 10 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 7 7 25 24 6 6 8 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Thinking",
          "orig": "enm:Thinking",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sort out; to resolve, subdue, or confirm."
      ],
      "id": "en-semen-enm-verb-3qoiHkfM",
      "links": [
        [
          "sort",
          "sort"
        ],
        [
          "resolve",
          "resolve"
        ],
        [
          "subdue",
          "subdue"
        ],
        [
          "confirm",
          "confirm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Early Middle English) To sort out; to resolve, subdue, or confirm."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈseːmən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "semen"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "seem"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "word": "seem"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "sœma",
      "sœma#Old_Norse"
    ],
    [
      "*sōmijaną",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sōmijaną"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_number": "2",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "to seem"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymid"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "sœma"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Old Norse sœma",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*sōmijaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old Norse sœma, from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną, thus a doublet of Etymology 1.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "semeth",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semynge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to semen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
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    },
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      "form": "semeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
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    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "semynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ysemed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cemyn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seeme",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seemen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semy",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semyn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "enm",
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        "head": ""
      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "stem": "sem"
      },
      "expansion": "semen (third-person singular simple present semeth, present participle semynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle semed)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sem"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
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      "word": "bisemen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "seme"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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    }
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        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              89,
              94
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              91,
              97
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The gleaming swords went back and forth / so violently that with the smallest stroke, / it seemed like it'd topple an oak.",
          "ref": "1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Knẏghtes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 23, recto:",
          "text": "The brıghte swerdes / wenten to and fro / So hıdouſlẏ / that wıth the leeſte ſtrook / It ſemed / as ıt wolde felle an ook",
          "translation": "The gleaming swords went back and forth / so violently that with the smallest stroke, / it seemed like it'd topple an oak.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              129,
              135
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              138,
              143
            ]
          ],
          "english": "But even then, they've supported them because of threats: / otherwise the same poor men would've taken their possessions. So therefore it seems like poverty is the whole and main cause of every such rising.",
          "ref": "c. 1471, Joh[annes] fforteſcue, “Heꝛe aft͛ ys schewyd what haꝛme would come to Englond yf the cȏmons theꝛof weꝛe pooꝛe”, in [Governance of England] (Bodleian MS. Digby 145), Adrıan[us] ffoꝛteſcu, published 1532, folio [149, recto]; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 16 August 2022:",
          "text": "But yet often tymes thay haue gone wᵗ thaym thoꝛowgh manaſys / oꝛ els the ſame poor mēn would haue takyn theır goodꝰ / wheꝛyn ıt ſemyth that pou͛tye hath byn the hole ⁊ cheffe cauſe off al ſuche ryſyng",
          "translation": "But even then, they've supported them because of threats: / otherwise the same poor men would've taken their possessions. So therefore it seems like poverty is the whole and main cause of every such rising.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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          "seem",
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          "look"
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        ]
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival)",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 8 11 17 8 8 8 10 8",
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          "name": "Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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          "_dis": "12 7 7 25 24 6 6 8 6",
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          "_dis": "12 7 7 25 24 6 6 8 6",
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
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        "tr": "",
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        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "to semen",
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        "infinitive"
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
        "singular"
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        "past",
        "singular"
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
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        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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      "form": "semedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
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    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
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    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "semeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
        "plural"
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    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
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    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ysemed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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          "_dis": "16 6 8 19 10 6 6 22 6",
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      "ipa": "/ˈseːmən/"
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      "ipa": "/ˈsɛːmən/"
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          "english": "The gleaming swords went back and forth / so violently that with the smallest stroke, / it seemed like it'd topple an oak.",
          "ref": "1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Knẏghtes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 23, recto:",
          "text": "The brıghte swerdes / wenten to and fro / So hıdouſlẏ / that wıth the leeſte ſtrook / It ſemed / as ıt wolde felle an ook",
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          "ref": "c. 1471, Joh[annes] fforteſcue, “Heꝛe aft͛ ys schewyd what haꝛme would come to Englond yf the cȏmons theꝛof weꝛe pooꝛe”, in [Governance of England] (Bodleian MS. Digby 145), Adrıan[us] ffoꝛteſcu, published 1532, folio [149, recto]; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 16 August 2022:",
          "text": "But yet often tymes thay haue gone wᵗ thaym thoꝛowgh manaſys / oꝛ els the ſame poor mēn would haue takyn theır goodꝰ / wheꝛyn ıt ſemyth that pou͛tye hath byn the hole ⁊ cheffe cauſe off al ſuche ryſyng",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old English sīman",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "sīman"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Old English sīman",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*saumijan",
        "id": "load"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *saumijan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "sem",
        "3": "-en",
        "id1": "load",
        "id2": "infinitival",
        "pos2": "infinitival suffix",
        "t1": "load"
      },
      "expansion": "sem (“load”) + -en (infinitival suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old English sīman, sēman, from Proto-West Germanic *saumijan; equivalent to sem (“load”) + -en (infinitival suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "semeth",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semynge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to semen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semdest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "semed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ysemed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seme",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "semen",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "stem": "sem"
      },
      "expansion": "semen (third-person singular simple present semeth, present participle semynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle semed)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sem",
        "c2": "de",
        "p_part2": "0"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To load up or with; to place upon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "load",
          "load"
        ],
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ],
        [
          "upon",
          "upon"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be burdensome or grievous."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "burdensome",
          "burdensome"
        ],
        [
          "grievous",
          "grievous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, rare) To be burdensome or grievous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈseːmən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛːmən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "semen"
}

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