Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being conjectured or guessed.
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- adjective Capable of being conjectured or guessed.
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- adjective Able to be
conjectured upon.
Etymologies
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Examples
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How this fall had come about was readily conjecturable:
The Woodlanders 2006
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No: they are instructed to conjecture whether a book is indecent by first conjecturing how it will affect young minds which are, conjecturally, open to the conjecturable influences of such a book.
Unprintable 1969
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It lay, a black mass, and whether it was a vast huddle of weeds, or a great whale killed by the earthquake, or solid land uphove by the volcanic rupture, was not conjecturable.
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Casino on sundry occasions, and sagaciously preferring places within the range of her experience to bournes neither cognate nor conjecturable, she moved gravely up toward the gate on which the Italian sate; and, after eyeing him a moment -- as much as to say "I wish you would get off" -- came to a dead lock.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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There are certain sounds and certain sights -- the one indistinct, the other vaguely conjecturable -- which, nevertheless, we know by an instinct, bode some diabolical agency at work in our affairs.
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Thus it became increasingly conjecturable whether she had ever left Saltmarsh.
The Saltmarsh Murders Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1933
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No: they are instructed to conjecture whether a book is indecent by first conjecturing how it will affect young minds which are, conjecturally, open to the conjecturable influences of such a book.
Unprintable 1923
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It is even conjecturable that Carter may have said _puribus omnia pura_; but if he did so, it was with so droll an accent that his audience laughed again.
Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923
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But formerly, and especially by the theoreticians, by verisimilar was understood historical credibility, or that historical truth which is not demonstrable, but conjecturable, not true, but verisimilar.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Suppose -- only suppose -- the silent threatening Thing across the border, jewelled with the glowing Argus-eyes of many camp-fires, conjecturable in dark masses flecked with the white of waggon-tilts, and sometimes giving out the dull gleam of iron or the sparkle of steel, were to choose this,
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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