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surmise sb. (‘suspicion’ is the chief sense)
1. thought, reflection Lucr. 83, 1579
2. conjecture, speculation 2H4 I. iii. 23 “Conjecture, expectation, and Of aids incertain,” Mac. I. iii. 141 “function Is smother'd in surmise.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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