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Surmise

verb

(past & past part. surmised; pres. part. surmising)

Infer from incomplete evidence.

Imagine to be the case or true or probable. Synonym: suspect. "I surmised that the butler did it"

noun

A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence. Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal.

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"Surmise" Quotes from Famous Books

... I want to see," thought Tom. "I'll have a talk with him." He reasoned that he could get more about the identity of the two mysterious men from the mechanic than from the waiter. Nor was he wrong in this surmise. ...

— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton

... The only surmise was that some squirrels had carried it up a tree. It was a ridiculous assumption, but the ...

— The Hero of Ticonderoga - or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys • John de Morgan

... the travelers parted. A year later the newspapers contained the report of the marriage of the famous explorer. The surmise is allowable that the analysis of this dream was the ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... intrenching on the domain of faith, and unsettling the religious convictions of the whole nation. There is no greater crime possible than to introduce among people enjoying all the benefits resulting from a firm belief in holy truth a simple doubt, a simple hesitating surmise, calculated to make them waver in the least in what had previously been a solid and well-grounded faith. But to consider that crime carried to the extent of so sapping the foundation of Christian belief ...

— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

... quitted the house. On cutting open my saddle I discovered that the whole original lining had been removed and replaced by an immense number of baneful roots and herbs, which I burnt on the spot. How this evil deed had been effected I could not even surmise, but so it was, and from that hour I was a different man—my mind recovered its equilibrium, I was no longer affected by pain and distress of body, or haunted by nightly visions. Those who smile at the medicine- man, and are sceptical as to ...

— Owindia • Charlotte Selina Bompas

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