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Webster 1913 Edition

Conjecture

Con-jec′ture

(; 135?)
,
Noun.
[L.
conjectura
, fr.
conjicere
,
conjectum
, to throw together, infer, conjecture;
con-
+
jacere
to throw: cf. F.
conjecturer
. See
Jet
a shooting forth.]
An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; 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.

Con-jec′ture

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Conjectured
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Conjecturing
.]
[Cf. F.
conjecturer
. Cf.
Conject
.]
To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
Human reason can then, at the best, but
conjecture
what will be.
South.

Con-jec′ture

,
Verb.
I.
To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.

Webster 1828 Edition

Conjecture

CONJECTURE

,
Noun.
[L., See Conjector.]
1.
Literally, a casting or throwing together of possible or probable events; or a casting of the mind to something future, or something past but unknown; a guess, formed on a supposed possibility or probability of a fact, or on slight evidence; preponderance of opinion without proof; surmise. We speak of future or unknown things by conjecture, and of probable or unfounded conjectures.
2.
Idea; notion.

CONJECTURE

,
Verb.
T.
To guess; to judge by guess, or by the probability or the possibility of a fact, or by very slight evidence; to form an opinion at random. What will be the issue of a war, we may conjecture, but cannot know. He conjectured that some misfortune had happened.

Definition 2024

conjecturé

conjecturé

See also: conjecture

French

Verb

conjecturé m ‎(feminine singular conjecturée, masculine plural conjecturés, feminine plural conjecturées)

  1. past participle of conjecturer

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