Surmise vs Adjudge - What's the difference?
surmise | adjudge | Related terms |
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1919 ,
Reflection; thought; posit.
To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.
To declare to be.
To deem or determine to be.
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To award judicially; to assign.
*XIX c. , James Russell Lowell,
*:What doth the poor man's son inherit?
*:Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
*:A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
*:Content that from employment springs
Surmise is a related term of adjudge.
As verbs the difference between surmise and adjudge
is that surmise is while adjudge is to declare to be.surmise
English
Noun
(en noun)- surmises of jealousy or of envy
- No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practices contradict his profession; not upon small surmises .
- The meeting had been devoid of incident. No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted. I was intrigued.
- (Shakespeare)
Verb
(surmis)External links
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Verb
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