misconjecture
English
editEtymology
editFrom mis- + conjecture.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmisconjecture (third-person singular simple present misconjectures, present participle misconjecturing, simple past and past participle misconjectured)
- (archaic) To conjecture wrongly; to misguess
Noun
editmisconjecture (plural misconjectures)
- (archaic) A wrong conjecture or guess.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- I hope they will plausibly receive our attempts, or candidly correct our misconjectures
References
edit- “misconjecture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.