conject
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conject (third-person singular simple present conjects, present participle conjecting, simple past and past participle conjected)
- (obsolete) To conjecture.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
- Shapes faults that are not) that your wisedome
From one, that so imperfectly conceits
- (obsolete) To throw together, or to throw.
- 1625, Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem: a just Appeale from two unjust Informers:
- these men […] congested and conjected at a masse upon the church of England
Further reading[edit]
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “conject”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.