Con*jec"ture , v. i. To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.
Con*jec"ture , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conjectured (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Conjecturing.]
[Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf. Conject.] To arrive at by
conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
Human reason can then, at the best, but
conjecture what will be.
South.
Con*jec"ture (; 135?), n. [L. conjectura, fr.
conjicere, conjectum, to throw together, infer, conjecture; con- + jacere to throw: cf. F. conjecturer. See Jet a shooting forth.]
An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence;
probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature.
Whewell.
Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.
Milton.
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