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surmise

noun
/sɜːˈmaɪz/UK/sɚˈmaɪz/US

Etymology

From Old French surmis, past participle of surmetre, surmettre (“to accuse”), from sur- (“upon”) + metre (“to put”).

  1. derived from surmis

Definitions

  1. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence

    Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.

    • surmises of jealousy or of envy
    • This opinion, however, is merely a surmise, which may or may not be the case.

  2. Reflection

    Reflection; thought; posit.

    • My Thought, whoſe Murther yet is but fantaſticall, / Shakes ſo my ſingle ſtate of Man, / That Function is ſmother'd in ſurmiſe, / And nothing is, but what is not.

  3. To imagine or suspect

    To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.

    • If, as I surmise, you see the ladies this evening, you might mention my intended visit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at surmise. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at surmise. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at surmise

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA