To hold as an opinion, to believe, judge, consider. Usually: to believe without any great assurance… transitive. With object clause (or pronoun…

absol. To think. Obsolete.

In parenthetic use (chiefly I understand): To believe or assume, on account of information received or by inference.

transitive. With clause as object: to hold or entertain an opinion; to think, imagine, believe. Also (occasionally) intransitive. Obsolete.

intransitive. To account of, have (such or such) an opinion of. Obsolete. Cf. 2c.

transitive and intransitive. To apprehend, conceive; to think, estimate, have an opinion; to judge. Obsolete.

intransitive. To form, hold, or give an opinion.

To hold or form an opinion about; to hold as one's opinion, think, consider, suppose. Also: to express… transitive. With clause (esp. that-clause)…