Make conjectures

Usage examples of speculate.

Borja privately speculated that the record had almost certainly been altered or effaced after the event to insure that the eventual loser appeared as the antipope to the eyes of history.

They have thus occasioned modern expounders to speculate about the Gnostic speculations in a manner that is marked by still greater strangeness.

Had pure philosophy, he was speculating, ever advanced beyond the Three Hypostases of Plotinus?

There were knots of half-grown men on the corners of the street and about the adjacent pot-houses who were driving a good traffic in tickets, and other knots of creatures, neither men nor boys, but that New York intermedium, who has lost the honesty of the boy without gaining the manliness of the man, were speculating upon the probabilities of a fight, and expressing very decided opinions as to the possibility of licking the Frenchmen who would endeavor to keep them out or keep them orderly after they got in.

I speculated that, prior to my arrival for the final demonstration, Galvadon had felt the latest object on the Thim shelf or altar or whatever it was, and reported to Munt on its shape and attributes.

In later chapters, as I present my theory of music, we will have reason to speculate on the existence and purpose of a number of distinct tono-topic cortical maps, and on the relationship between perceived musicality and the patterns of neural activity in those maps.

The stranger, as he speculates on these pandemoniac noises, is able to realize the idea that were they discontinued the excitement necessary for the minds of the pundits might be lowered, and that activity might be lessened, and evil results might follow.

But now she had no time to speculate upon so trivial a thing, for behind her came the sudden clash of arms and she knew that Turan, the panthan, had crossed swords with the first of their pursuers.

And I was still speculating as to what tureen of soup she was planning to land the sainted Pinker in and hoping that he would have enough sense to stay out of it, when Jeeves drove up in the car, a welcome sight.

If the Blue Wheel Party collapses and its members realign with the War Party or the Imperials, every street merchant in Ontoset is speculating on the news the next day to the marketplace.

Any aspect of creation, of the physical universe and its daily workings, is presumed to have a highly esoteric and recomplicated origin, but one which is nonetheless capable of being speculated on wildly, almost ad infinitum in fact, by the properly trained mind.

The girl was pretty, perhaps pretty enough to divert Sertes from speculating about Rizpah.

I followed rapidly until, darkness shutting down, I was forced to await the rising of the moon, and given an opportunity to speculate on the question of the wisdom of my chase.

Sceptics, or decide with the Stoics, sublimely speculate with Plato, or severely argue with Aristotle.

Johnson, however, had a noble ambition floating in his mind, and had, undoubtedly, often speculated on the possibility of his supereminent powers being rewarded in this great and liberal country by the highest honours of the state.