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Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences forconjectured

They adversary, as thou mayest have conjectured, is in league with the powers of darkness.

That, he conjectured, had been the original accident which had brought her down.

It is conjectured from this that the supply of khaki is already exhausted.

It must be either unfinished by the author or mutilated (as Hearne conjectured).

But he again felt troubled as he conjectured what might happen in such event.

This I conjectured, from its extent and position, to be the Prussian line.

It was on these that he had conjectured the suit which, meanwhile, constituted a nut to crack.

It has been conjectured that such a separation of the tent is implied in p. 24Gen.

Pigorini conjectured that it had some religious signification.

This sort of an explanation just fitted in with what Paul had conjectured.

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