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conjecturer|kənˈdʒɛktjʊərə(r)|
[f. prec. + -er1. In mod.F. conjectureur.]
†1. An interpreter of omens or dreams; an augur, diviner, prognosticator, fortune-teller. Obs.
1612R. Sheldon Serm. St. Martins 48 Who is so simple a coniecturer as cannot presage vpon whose head the beane would be bruised. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 309 A certain courser..dreamt..that he was carried thither in a chariot, and, consulting a conjecturer upon it, etc. 1684tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes xxxix. 105 Dreams..whose Interpreters are properly call'd Conjecturers. 1718F. Hutchinson Witchcraft xii. 184 Observers of the flying of Birds, Conjecturers. 1736Disc. Witchcr. 6 Conjurers, or Conjecturers..so called from their guessing at the future Event of Things.
2. One who makes conjectures.
1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. (1634) 18 These witty conjecturers seeme to forget that the Saxons when first they had this name, were unacquainted with the Latine tongue. 1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. iv. xii. 272. 1712 Addison Spect. No. 271 ⁋3, I shall leave these wise Conjecturers to their own Imaginations. 1768Johnson Pref. to Shaks. Wks. IX. 292 The collator's province is safe and easy, the conjecturer's perilous and difficult. 1880Dowden in Academy 16 Oct. 270 A student..who possesses the first folio..may defy the race of Commentators and Conjecturers. |
