A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1552-1578
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Conjecture, -our, n. Also: -eur. [ME. (Chaucer) and OF. conjecture, L. conjectūra.] Conjecture, guess. —c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5268.
Be diuers coniectouris And principall expositouris 1568 Buch. Indict. 33.
Probable … coniecteuris and presumptiounis 1563-1570 Id. Wr. 24.
I leif to your coniecture [etc.] a1578 Pitsc. I. 91/16. a1578 Ib. 214/3.
The erle of Douglas … tuik ane suspitioun and coniectour quhat Schir Patrick Grayis commissioun was
