Definition of Surmisers

1. surmiser [n] - See also: surmiser

Lexicographical Neighbors of Surmisers

surliness
surlinesses
surling
surlings
surloin
surloins
surly
surmark
surmarks
surmisable
surmisal
surmisals
surmise
surmised
surmiser
surmisers (current term)
surmises
surmising
surmount
surmountable
surmounted
surmounter
surmounters
surmounting
surmounts
surmullet
surmullets
surname
surnamed
surnameless

Literary usage of Surmisers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. What is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain (1919)
"And according to the surmisers, that is what he did. ... His father could not read, and even the surmisers surmise that he did not keep a library. ..."

2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"... and illiterate surmisers, That like to Saints would holy be in lookes, Of fond religions fabulous ..."

3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1845)
"... and illiterate surmisers, That like to Saints would holy be in lookes, Of fond religions fabulous ..."

4. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene by Robert Greene (1905)
"... and illiterate surmisers, That like to saints would holy be in lookes, 275 Of fond religions fabulous ..."

5. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... that w« may gratify weak surmisers. The custom of swearing and forswearing hath, in our unhappy land, took away the sense of perjury ; by the no ..."

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