surmising

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SURMI'SING, participle present tense Suspecting; imagining upon slight evidence. SURMI'SING, noun The act of suspecting; surmise; as evil surmisings. 1 Timothy 6:4.
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