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Theorize

verb

(past & past part. theorized; pres. part. theorizing)

To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds. Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise.

Construct a theory about.

Form or construct theories.

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"Theorize" Quotes from Famous Books

... our system of propagating, Mr. Editor, I have not attempted to theorize. I give the plain statement of operations as we practice them, thoroughly believing that the want of success in every case must be owing to a deviation from these rules. Ignoring entirely most of the maxims ...

— Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings • George E. Woodward

... But, theorize as we may about the cause, the effect is unmistakable, and, at least on the surface, satisfactory. To-day we all are the friends and lovers of Liberty—and yet the very multitude of our new comrades gives us, the ...

— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell

... decay was the weakness with which he now began to theorize. He accounted for everything by electricity. A singular mortality at this time prevailed amongst the cats of Vienna, Basle, Copenhagen, and other places. Cats being so eminently an electric animal, of course he attributed this epizootic to electricity. During the same period, he persuaded himself ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... haunting the trim Garden's school— Where cold Philosophy usurps a rule, Like the pale moon's, o'er passion's heaving tide, Till Pleasure's self is chilled by Wisdom's pride— Be taught by us, quit shadows for the true, Substantial joys we sager Priests pursue, Who far too wise to theorize on bliss Or pleasure's substance for its shade to miss. Preach other worlds but live for only this:- Thanks to the well-paid Mystery round us flung, Which, like its type the golden cloud that hung O'er Jupiter's love-couch ...

— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... not permit myself to theorize at this stage—an indulgence which, when premature, inevitably colors one's opinions, and prejudices all attempts ...

— The Paternoster Ruby • Charles Edmonds Walk

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