Noah Webster
Seem
SEEM, v. i.
1. To appear; to make or have a show or semblance.
Thou art not what thou seems't. Shak.
All seem'd well pleased; all seem'd, but were not all. Milton.
2. To have the appearance of truth or fact; to be understood as true. It seems that the Turkish power is on the decline.
A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mistress on a great lake. Addison.
SEEM, v. t. To become; to befit. Obs.