2. Direct object of a transitive verb ([§ 99]): as,—
I will find you.
3. Indirect object of a transitive verb ([§ 105]): as,—
He gave me a dollar.
4. Subject of an infinitive (see [§ 325]).
Note. In poetry the objective me is sometimes used in exclamations: as,—“Me miserable!” (Milton).
In methinks and meseems (“it seems to me”), me is a remnant of the old dative, as in the indirect object (see [§ 107]).
The compounds thereof, therewith, therefrom, etc., are equivalent to of it, with it, from it, etc.: as,—“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” (Leviticus xxv. 10).
For the impersonal it as cognate object, see [§ 120].