Word Meanings - FOREGUESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To conjecture.

CONJECTURER
One who conjectures. Hobbes.
CONJECTURE
An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing
MISCONJECTURE
A wrong conjecture or guess. Sir T. Browne.