Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To throw together; throw; cast; hurl.
- To conjecture; guess.
- To plan; devise; project.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To throw together, or to throw.
- transitive verb obsolete To conjecture; also, to plan.
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- verb obsolete to
conjecture
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Examples
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I would conject a lot of those ruts were travelled by players who worked at every step believing that was the direction they wanted to go.
The future? 2007
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We could conject that Brand heard the same rumors that Iron Man recalled "The rumor in financial circles was a crackpot named Donalbain created the costume ... and its powers ... for his own purposes" and decided to try making their own.
Character Obscura: Hellcat Brian Hughes 2006
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Reality develops in a way inconsistent with the models, so quickly conject a plausible mechanism most marks if the mechanism can be somehow blamed on humans, update the models to include this mechanism and reclaim perfect hindcasting.
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Without exaggeration, it is permissible to conject that its scope extended over twenty-five centuries.
Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881
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Conject, the global software provider for the management of the entire Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) of construction projects, recently announced the first iPhone-application (conject App) for the real estate industry.
unknown title 2009
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The sacred history doth not inform us; and we can only conject - ure.
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Maybe there’s a fake doctor in the house who can conject an affirmation of your grandma’s cure …
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Maybe there’s a fake doctor in the house who can conject an affirmation of your grandma’s cure …
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But least any of the crownes should lacke weight or be found counterfeit, I willed him to scale the purse wherein they were put, with his manuell signe, whereby the next day we might goe together to the Goldsmith to try them, which he did; wherefore understanding that he was brought present before you this day, I hastily commanded one of my servants to fetch the purse which he had sealed, and here I bring it unto you to see whether he will deny his owne signe or no: and you may easily conject that his words are untrue, which he alleadged against the young man, touching the buying of the poyson, considering hee bought the poyson himselfe.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Goldsmith to try them, which he did; wherefore understanding that he was brought present before you this day, I hastily commanded one of my servants to fetch the purse which he had sealed, and here I bring it unto you to see whether he will deny his owne signe or no: and you may easily conject that his words are untrue, which he alleadged against the young man, touching the buying of the poyson, considering hee bought the poyson himselfe.
The Golden Asse 1566
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