2. To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.

For never can I deem him less him less than god.

Dryden.

Deem, v. i. 1. To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose.

And deemest thou as those who pore,

With aged eyes, short way before?

Emerson.