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Definition of Surmisal
1. Noun. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.
Generic synonyms: Opinion, View
Specialized synonyms: Divination
Derivative terms: Conjectural, Guess, Guess, Guess, Hypothecate, Hypothesize, Hypothetical, Speculate, Suppose, Suppositional, Suppositious, Supposititious, Surmise, Surmise, Surmise
Definition of Surmisal
1. n. Surmise.
Definition of Surmisal
1. Noun. surmise ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Surmisal
1. a guess [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surmisal
Literary usage of Surmisal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1898)
"makes the mind of man work in harmony with the mind in nature, which makes an
imaginative surmisal with reference to material things a legitimate product of ..."
2. Fundamentals in Education, Art and Civics: Essays and Addresses by George Lansing Raymond (1911)
"... in that arrangement of nature in accordance with which matter and mind,
knowledge and surmisal, always move forward on parallel planes with the mind and ..."
3. Fundamentals in Education, Art and Civics: Essays and Addresses by George Lansing Raymond (1911)
"... even a pronounced disbelief, in that arrangement of nature in accordance with
which matter and mind, knowledge and surmisal, always move forward on ..."
4. Fundamentals in Education, Art and Civics: Essays and Addresses by George Lansing Raymond (1911)
"... in that arrangement of nature in accordance with which matter and mind,
knowledge and surmisal, always move forward on parallel planes with the mind and ..."
5. Art in Theory: An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1894)
"... in that arrangement of nature in accordance with which matter and mind,
knowledge and surmisal, always move forward on parallel planes with the mind and ..."
6. Paradise Lost by John Milton, Egerton Brydges (1851)
"... men of high estimation, now while green years are upon my head; from this
needless surmisal I shall hope to dissuade tho intelligent and equal auditor, ..."
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