æsteem

== English == === Noun === æsteem (uncountable) Archaic spelling of esteem. === Verb === æsteem (third-person singular simple present æsteems, present participle æsteeming, simple past and past participle æsteemed) Archaic spelling of esteem. 1582, Robert Persons, S.J., The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution; quoted in: 1998, Victor Houliston [ed.], The Christian Directory (1582), introduction, page xxvi (BRILL; →ISBN, 9789004110090) A pious assertion that there was no earthly reason for Jesus to lower himself to become man elicits the patronising remark: ‘although God hath given to this our Author a very good gift in persuading to godlines of life (for which we have to æsteem of him accordingly:) yet hath he not given him therwithal so ful a knowlege of the mysterie of our redemption in Christ’ (p. 189).