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Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. 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.
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vb. (en-past of: conjecture)
Usage examples of "conjectured".
I slept well, and as I conjectured at least six hours, for I found the day broke in two hours after I awaked.
I then conjectured that one of the men, perhaps my captor, since it was be who had had me tend the brazier, wished to mark something which he owned, imprinting in it an identificatory design, perhaps a harness or belt, or the leather of a brass-hooped shield.
There were some seventy or eighty men, I had conjectured several days ago, in the retinue.
It was, I conjectured, the first time in her life she had ever been struck.
The blond girl, I would have conjectured, would have been from the middle class.
She, I had conjectured, would be the first of the three girls to come to a full slavery, or, as the Goreans sometimes put it, she would probably be the first to lick her chains.
I have no way of knowing precisely what its temperature often was but I would have conjectured it would often have been in the eighties.
The complex, then, that in which I was prisoner, I conjectured, might well have a clock similar to those used on Kur ships, and in the distant steel worlds, a clock doubtless once developed for use on their former world, doubtless long since destroyed in their internecine wars.
The mechanism, I conjectured, would be analogized to the waxing and waning of light on a native world.
It fired, I conjectured, judging from the breech, a long, conical, gas-impelled dart.
It was more than eight feet in height I would have conjectured its weight at some nine hundred pounds.
If I was found, it would be conjectured that the death, violent though it might have been, was not one unnatural for the Gorean north.
The destructive device I sought, I was confident, would lie in an area beyond the reach of the overhead track system and, I conjectured, in an area not public to the surveillance system.
Such a number, I conjectured, would not even be missed in a population which teemed like that of Earth.
The declivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore, which I conjectured was about eight o'clock in the evening.