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ence; 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.

A wrong conjecture or guess. Sir T. Browne.

To guess or conjecture. [Obs.] Shak.

To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson.

To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow. My auguring mind assures the same success. Dryden.

Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.

To conjecture; also, to plan. [Obs.]

One who guesses or conjectures. [Obs.] A great conjector at other men by their writings. Milton.

Capable of being conjectured or guessed.

Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful. And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me. Shak. A slight expense of conjectural analogy. Hugh Miller. Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural. Carlyle.

A conjecturer. [R.] Month. rev.

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

One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity. [Obs.] Addison.

To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft.

A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke.

an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned. The foundation of Solomon's temple is conjectured by Ideler to have been an era. R. S. Poole.

Supposition; conjecture. I speak not this in estimation, As what I think might be, but what I know. Shak.

n event; a circumstance. What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture. Evelyn. He who most excels in fact of arms. Milton.

To conjecture. [Obs.]