Conjecture: alternatives and connections

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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To wait for; to await.

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A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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of Reason

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A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Evolved; unfolded.

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To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.

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To trace back, as a line.

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The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

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The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.

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The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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The act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or theories; speculation.

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Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.

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Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.

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To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of pos…

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A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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The act of speculating.

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To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…

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The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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Surmise.

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A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

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