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Surmise   /sərmˈaɪz/   Listen
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Surmise  v. t.  (past & past part. surmised; pres. part. surmising)  To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess. "It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true." "This change was not wrought by altering the form or position of the earth, as was surmised by a very learned man, but by dissolving it."


noun
Surmise  n.  
1.
A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmises of jealousy or of envy. "(We) double honor gain From his surmise proved false." "No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practicies contradict his profession; not upon small surmises."
2.
Reflection; thought. (Obs.)
Synonyms: Conjecture; supposition; suspicion; doubt.





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"Surmise" Quotes from Famous Books



... your coming hither to lecture is taken as a settled point by all your friends here; and for my share I do not reckon upon the smallest doubt about the essential fact of it, simply on some calculation and adjustment about the circumstantials. Of Ireland, who I surmise is busy in the problem even now, you will hear by and by, probably in more definite terms: I did not see him again after my first notice of him to you; but there is no doubt concerning his determinations (for all manner of reasons) to get you to Lancashire, to England;—and ...
— The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. • Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
... manner," said Mr. Trent, "I surmise that he was not successful in finding the baby's parents, who were undoubtedly lost in the flood. Let us take good care of him, for he has so faithfully fulfilled his duty. We, too, have a duty to perform, for we must train and educate this child whom we ...
— After Long Years and Other Stories • Translated from the German by Sophie A. Miller and Agnes M. Dunne
... Reminiscences, on the 3rd of May, 1881, he returned to Mrs. Alexander Carlyle the manuscript note-book which contained the memoir of her aunt, as Carlyle had requested him to do. At the end of it, on separate and wafered paper, following rather vague surmise that, though he meant to burn the book, it would probably survive him and be read by his friends, ...
— The Life of Froude • Herbert Paul
... change! semper eadem! Women will be wanting a change of air in Paradise; a change of angels too, I might surmise. A change from quarters like these to a French hotel would be a descent!—'this the seat, this mournful gloom for that celestial light.' I am perfectly at home in the library here. That excellent fellow Whitford and I have real days: and I like him ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... friends of Mrs. Eddy mended its English three times, and finally got it into its present shape, where the grammar is plenty good enough, and the sentences are smooth and plausible though they do not mean anything. I think I am right in this surmise, for Mrs. Eddy cannot write English to-day, and this is argument that she never could. I am not able to guess who did the mending, but I think it was not done by any member of the Eddy Trust, nor by the editors of the 'Christian Science Journal,' ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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