surmi’ze. To suspect; to imagine without certain knowledge; to entertain thoughts that something does or will exist, but upon slight evidence. It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew . That what before she but surmis’d, was true. 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.

Suspicion; the thought or imagination that something may be, of which however there is no certain or strong evidence; as the surmises of jealousy or of envy. We double honor gain . From his surmise prov’d false. No man ought to be charged with principles he disowns, unless his practices contradict his professions; not upon small surmises.