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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[Pref.

deem

To award; to adjudge.

[Obs.]

“Unto him they did addeem the prise.”

Spenser.

Verb.

[See Deem.] To award; to sentence. [Little used.]

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

(transitive, now rare, archaic) To adjudge; to try, test. [from 8th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.3:
  So unto him they did addeeme the prise / Of all that Tryumph.
- 1892, Willard Smith Gibbons, Charles Hood Mills, William Henry Silvernail, Digest of the New York State reporter:
  Legacy is not addeemed by gift before execution of will.
- 2012, Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur:
  Their priests addeemed this blessed by pagan gods.
(transitive) To deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.