methought

[ mi-thawt ]

verb

, Archaic

1. simple past tense of methinks.

methought

/ mɪˈθɔːt /

verb

1. archaic.
   the past tense of methinks

Example Sentences

“He seemed to me to enjoy a triumph over me. Methought I heard him say, ‘Ay!

From Washington Post

When I was come to The age of fifteen year In all this lond, neither free not bond, Methought I had no peer.

From Literature

We cracked some of our old jokes, but methought they went off but faintly.

From BBC

Third in line was the Milton sonnet, “Methought I saw my late espoused saint,” a poem drenched in grief, loss, and longing, a poem I’ve loved since adolescence, a poem that I thought, perhaps, they wouldn’t entirely understand.

From Washington Post

The final harmonies are supposed to illustrate the passage in the twenty-first canto of the Paradiso:— I saw rear'd up, In colour like to sun-illumined gold, A ladder, which my ken pursued in vain, So lofty was the summit; down whose steps I saw the splendours in such multitude Descending, every light in heaven, methought, Was shed thence.

From Project Gutenberg