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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Surmise  \Sur*mise"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Surmised};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Surmising}.] 
  To  imagine  without  certain  knowledge;  to  infer  on  slight 
  grounds;  to  suppose,  conjecture,  or  suspect;  to  guess. 
 
  It  wafted  nearer  yet  and  then  she  knew  That  what 
  before  she  but  surmised,  was  true.  --Dryden. 
 
  This  change  was  not  wrought  by  altering  the  form  or 
  position  of  the  earth,  as  was  surmised  by  a  very 
  learned  man,  but  by  dissolving  it  --Woodward. 




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