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A conjecturer. [R.] Month. rev.

In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture. Boyle.

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.

One who conjectures. Hobbes.

The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination. The conjuncture of philosophy and divinity. Hobbes. A fit conjuncture or circumstances. Addison.

Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange.

Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. [R.] A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale.

To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt. [Obs.] Dr. J. Scott.

By the act of nature; originally; from birth. Sir M. Hale.

Participation of the same nature; natural union. I. Walton.

Participation in a common nature or character. [R.] Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness. H. Spencer.

Joint signature. [R.] Colgrave.

That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric. [Obs.]

The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. [Obs.] The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.

Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. Dr. John Smith (1666).

angement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture. That wonderful contexture of all created beings. Dryden. He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Sir H. Wotton.

Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. [R.] Carlyle.

A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.

Opposed to or against nature; unnatural. [R.] Bp. Rust.

To triturate; to pulverize. [R.]