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 Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 46:
- I doe beſeech you,
Though I perchance am vicious in my gheſſe,
As I confeſſe it is my natures plague,
To ſpy into abuſes, and oft my iealouſie
Shapes faults that are not, I intreate you then,
From one that ſo imperfectly coniects,
You’d take no notice, nor build your ſelfe a trouble,
Out of my ſcattering, and vnſure obſeruance; […]
- (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 (2001–2024) “conject”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.