Gesewen

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. An obsolete past participle of the verb to perceive with the eyes, used in older English writing in place of the modern form
2. Old spelling of the past participle of the verb meaning to look at or perceive, found in medieval and early modern texts
3. A archaic form of the past participle of the verb for visually perceiving something, now replaced by the standard modern spelling

Etymology: Old English "gesewen" was the past participle of "seon," meaning "to see," and the "ge-" at its front was a prefix that marked participles in that period. Over the Middle English centuries, speakers dropped the prefix and reshaped the vowels, and the form settled into the modern "seen" that the entry describes as its replacement.