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Synonyms for conjecturing

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kuhn-jek-cher
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈdʒɛk tʃər

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Définition of conjecturing

Origin :
  • late 14c., "interpretation of signs and omens," from Old French conjecture "surmise, guess," or directly from Latin coniectura "conclusion, interpretation, guess, inference," literally "a casting together (of facts, etc.)," from coniectus, past participle of conicere "to throw together," from com- "together" (see com-) + iacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). Sense of "forming of opinion without proof" is 1530s.
  • verb speculate
Example sentences :
  • The Squire had little trouble in conjecturing, however, that Ben was at the bottom of it.
  • Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
  • To what use it will next be put I have no pleasure in conjecturing.
  • Extract from : « A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland » by Samuel Johnson
  • But no needless time was spent in surmises and conjecturing.
  • Extract from : « Three Boys in the Wild North Land » by Egerton Ryerson Young
  • We must fall back upon history, and then go to conjecturing.
  • Extract from : « In Defense of Harriet Shelley » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • After I had spent nearly half an hour in this sort of conjecturing.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Tar » by Mayne Reid
  • Many of them smiled; he could hear the curious buzz of conjecturing whispers.
  • Extract from : « The Blind Spot » by Austin Hall
  • Conjecturing that the panel might be a movable one, I began to search for the spring.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of the Czar » by John R. Carling
  • There is always a difficulty in conjecturing the intentions of Gustavus.
  • Extract from : « The Thirty Years' War » by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
  • We were continually in doubt; now pausing, now conjecturing, now proceeding.
  • Extract from : « The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843 » by Various
  • I have just been conjecturing could that be that Gryston which we passed by on our way to Marlowe.
  • Extract from : « Guy Deverell, v. 1 of 2 » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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