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Definition of Surmiser
1. n. One who surmises.
Definition of Surmiser
1. one that surmises [n -S] - See also: surmises
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surmiser
Literary usage of Surmiser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"One who surmises, in any sense; a surmiser. [Rare.] lie meant no reflection ...
Browning, Mesmerism. surmiser ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1892)
"One ingenious surmiser has hazarded the opinion that elephants were common in
Syria in those days, and that a score or two of these- animals could have ..."
3. An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays by William Osler (1908)
"Wood speaks of Harvey as the surmiser of the little world, to distinguish him
from another Englishman who first went about the greater world. ..."
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