How To Use Conjecture In A Sentence
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Unlike Church, Turing developed his disproof of Hilbert's conjecture around the conception of a hypothetical machine which would decide the truth of statements by a set of well-defined sequential operations.
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Before her return from California all this would have been mere conjecture.
Times, Sunday Times
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The attitudes of others were matters of conjecture although there were plenty of rumours about how individuals had behaved.
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That, for now, is mere conjecture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until then, the issues that John claimed to be ‘pointing out’ are just opinion and conjecture.
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The Poincaré Conjecture remained unsolved during the entire twentieth century and defeated the efforts of many of the best topologists and geometers of the time.
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Nevertheless, the immense size of its larynx or thropple, which William dissected out and brought with him to England, seems to indicate vast powers of voice in this animal; but I am at a loss to conjecture why it should be provided either with this unusual capability of "blaring," or with the exceedingly strong whiskers that arm its muzzle, organs which, though nominally of little or no importance except in
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
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The impact of this episode upon the efforts to change the style of services for mentally ill patients is hard to conjecture.
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It was as though I had opened a faucet that everyone was just waiting to see opened, so they could start throwing the conjecture around.
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Bentley conjectured AVERSO for _aduerso_, and the two words are obviously prone to interchange: compare _Tr_ I iii 45 (of Ovid's wife, after his departure) 'multaque in auersos [_Heinsius_: aduersos _codd_] effudit uerba Penates' and the variations among the manuscripts at
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Only later did I find out conjecture was rife that I was a government spy.
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However, I'll add a disclaimer to say that everything here is just conjecture and guesswork, if you know otherwise then let me know.
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On the basis of this evidence, plus incredible intuition, he conjectured that all the complex zeros are on the critical line.
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This sort of cannibalism is an activity that scientists have long imagined and conjectured and in fact predicted but had never seen before.
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But a spokesman said: 'All reports are pure conjecture as the studio has not committed to a sequel as yet.
The Sun
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Goldbach also conjectured that every odd number is the sum of three primes.
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There still remain unproven conjectures such as the finiteness and consistency of any superstring theory, past the first three terms of a certain approximation scheme.
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Once again he saw himself, as if in a nightmare, watching impotently as the bizarre charabanc of facts and conjecture hurtled on its predestined course.
She Closed Her Eyes
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Such conjecture is not only legitimate; it's necessary and urgent.
Dave Zirin: In the NFL, The Violence Comes to a Head
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She conjectured the existence of a completely new species.
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Until the powers that be shed some light on the situation we are left only with conjecture and rumour.
The Sun
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Since the spring, there has been conjecture about the moment when relocation would resume.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is possible that the taloned hind limbs were used to dispatch large prey as well, but all of this is merely conjecture.
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Woodward ended the questioning session with facetious conjectures for the outcome of the upcoming election.
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The rumor raised much conjecture.
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At ix 73 he rightly prints _laxate_; the apparatus gives no indication that this is a conjecture, and that all manuscripts, including _B_ and _C_, read _iactate_, which he had printed in 1894.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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'Tis impossible for the eye to determine the angles of a chiliagon to be equal to 1996 right angles, or make any conjecture, that approaches this proportion; but when it determines, that right lines cannot concur; that we cannot draw more than one right line between two given points; it's mistakes can never be of any consequence.
A treatise of human nature
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Yet the whole itself must remain conjecture, as imponderable as accomplished facts or as forecasts of the future.
Translated Texts
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Brown conjectured that sharks use their supersensitive gel to detect these subtle boundaries.
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He conjectured that some individuals may be able to detect major calamities.
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But this is merely my conjecture, for I have neither data nor postulata enough to reason upon.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed
The Golden Bough
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These problems form the basis of a conjecture: every elliptic curve defined over the rational field is a factor of the Jacobian of a modular function field.
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One can only conjecture about the discomfort and indignity that Sharp, an asthmatic vegan, suffered in his quest, tramping up muddy tracks in the Appalachian mountains, where one community tried to convince him chicken was a vegetable.
Cecil Sharp and the Morris Men
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed "thunder-besom" is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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And, moreover, literary parallels are the ancestors of that undocile child, Conjecture.
Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei
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Maybe there just is no mathematical proof whatsoever which decides the conjecture.
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Maintaining a clear distinction between conjecture and certainty is especially important in such a conceptually difficult subject.
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In places where those records are incomplete or lost, we are left to conjecture when people from past centuries were born.
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The OED does not record ‘creature’ in the sense of ‘monster’ Hollywood's ‘creature from outer space’ but one might conjecture it to derive directly from Frankenstein's onomastic confusion.
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Revenge has been conjectured, for a popular officer in the division had been abducted by a party from the maquis the day before; so has trouble over the division's gold reserve, looted in its turn from occupied banks.
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That, for now, is mere conjecture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Were I to conjecture, I should say that the whole will centre, before it is long, in Mr. Pitt and Co., the present being an heterogeneous jumble of youth and caducity, which cannot be efficient.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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The source said: 'We can conjecture about what was going on in the house.
The Sun
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IV. iii.27 (` is rest to do more exploits with his mace than a morris pike] [W: a Maurice-pike] This conjecture is very ingenious, yet the commentator talks unnecessarily of the _rest of a musket. _ by which he makes the hero of the speech set up the _rest_ of a _musket, _ to do exploits with a _pike.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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I conjecture that your professor uses aureate palaver to augment the appraised merit of your edification.
Waldo Jaquith - 5 words my poetry professor used during today’s lecture.
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Lindley records the conjecture that the article referred to by Herodotus was the _nabk_, the berry of the lote-bush (_Zizyphus lotus_), which the Arabs of Barbary still eat.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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One can only conjecture about the reasons for Russia's change of front.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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That is practically what Michelet did, and though the garrulous old gossip drivelled endlessly about matters of supreme unimportance and ecstasized in his mild way over trivial anecdotes which he expanded beyond all proportion, and though his sentimentality and chauvinism sometimes discredited his quite plausible conjectures, he was nevertheless the only French historian who had overcome the limitation of time and made another age live anew before our eyes.
Là-bas
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Conjectures issued forth from every field and occupation.
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It is a mistake to regard the falsification of bold, highly falsifiable conjectures as the occasions of significant advance in science.
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Our conjecture is that, in general, contextual information requires more attentional resources and intentional processing to encode and to retrieve than does item information.
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We may conjecture that this place was the Resen, or Dase, of Holy Scripture, which is said to have been a large city, interposed between Nineveh and Calah.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter's departure from its initially predicted orbit.
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The general conjectured that the enemy only had about five days' supply of food left.
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Indeed, this is far from a theoretical conjecture.
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a chiliagon to be equal to 1996 right angles, or make any conjecture, that approaches this proportion; but when it determines, that right lines cannot concur; that we cannot draw more than one right line between two given points; it's mistakes can never be of any consequence.
A Treatise of Human Nature
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It was conjectured that all the elements might be composed of some one substance, for which a name, protyle, meaning first material, was coined.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The ingenuity and satisfactoriness of the method must be admitted by all who give it a trial, and it is interesting to conjecture how it may have arisen.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
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Whether the business will survive another ten years is pure conjecture.
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It was conjectured that English-speaking Chinese youth identify less with Chinese culture and are more isolated from their Chinese peers.
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Not yet aware of this truth, nor, indeed, in the least suspecting Gawtrey of worse offences than those of a charlatanic and equivocal profession, the young man mused over his protector's cowardice in disdain and wonder: till, wearied with conjectures, distrust, and shame at his own strange position of obligation to one whom he could not respect, he fell asleep.
Night and Morning, Complete
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Since the spring, there has been conjecture about the moment when relocation would resume.
Times, Sunday Times
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And to this conjecture I will venture to subjoin another, which hath also its probability, viz. that it is not improbable but the familiars of witches are a vile kind of spirits of a very inferior constitution and nature; and none of those that were once of the highest hierarchy now degenerated into the spirits we call devils ....
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
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There is no conjecture there - it is all supported, sequential, logical and consistent.
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Scholars can offer us only conjectures about who wrote it, who the intended audience was, and where and when it was written.
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More serious conjectures find some examples of sepulture in elephants, cranes, the sepulchral cells of pismires, and practice of bees, — which civil society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interments.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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The impact of this episode upon the efforts to change the style of services for mentally ill patients is hard to conjecture.
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The discovery gave rise to much fanciful conjecture; it was even said that the mylodon had been domesticated and kept tame in the caves; but Doctor Moreno laughed at the supposition and said that it lacked any foundation in fact.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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When there is a dispute as to the fact, since the cause is confirmed by conjectures, it is called a conjectural statement.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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These are alarming numbers and economically very damaging - and they are not mere conjecture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Somehow I have a feeling that конъюнктурный in this case is a calque from the English conjecture, in the sense that the previous editors presumed to be able to second-guess how Dostoyevsky's text would have looked were he to have written it at the time of republication, somewhat like those "plain text" editions of Shakespeare.
Languagehat.com: DOSTOEVSKY AND RUSSIAN PUNCTUATION.
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Exactly why the bottle was buried remains open to conjecture, but the ethnohistorical parallels make the guesswork rather minimal.
An American Witch Bottle
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I treated that information as plausible conjecture and afforded it credibility as such.
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The origin of their name is involved in great difficulties, but the most satisfactory conjecture is that the Sadducees or Zadokites were originally identical with the sons of Zadok, and constituted what may be termed a kind of sacerdotal aristocracy, this Zadok being the priest who declared in favor of Solomon when Abiathar took the part of Adonijah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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But around them swirl the mists of conjecture and pure fantasy that the learned judge has to cut through.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is conjectured that natural selection tuned the average connectivity in such a way that the network reaches a sparse graph of connections.
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Once you have real evidence, not some conjectured, cockamamie theory, call me.
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Italy; yet by their gray eyes and the largeness of their stature, they were conjectured to be some of the German races dwelling by the northern sea; besides that, the Germans call plunderers
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Significant advances will be marked by the confirmation of bold conjectures or the falsification of cautious conjectures.
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One word authoritatively declaring man's immortality, a word which by infallible token I could know to be a word from the Supreme, would to me be worth infinitely more than all the conjectures, hopes, and reasonings of all the philosophers.
Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra
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The masterwork of the great philosopher of science, Karl Popper, was titled Conjectures and Refutations.
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No troubles in Upper Egypt are mentioned during the reign of Auletes, and if things were quiet there, we mace that it was due to the government there being in the hands of some one whom, by our broken records, we may conjecture to have been a man of great consideration and influence, Callimachus the epistrategos.
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Her bold look, denuded bosom, and flaunty air, were sufficient to impress at once our heroine with an unfavourable opinion of her; and after she had retired with Rosse she expressed her dislike to him, and enquired whether she was not right in her conjectures.
Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
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If we suppose the case of the discovery of a skeleton of a Greenland whale in a fossil state, not a single cetaceous animal being known to exist, what naturalist would have ventured conjecture on the possibility of a carcass so gigantic being supported on the minute crustacea and mollusca living in the frozen seas of the extreme North?
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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I don't agree that we should manipulate data, and present only bits of broader data, to perpetuate a political agenda using conjecture and not science.
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It is impossible for the eye to determine the angles of a chiliagon to be equal to 1996 right angles, or make any conjecture, that approaches this proportion; but when it determines, that right lines cannot concur; that we cannot draw more than one right line between two given points; it’s mistakes can never be of any consequence.
A Treatise of Human Nature
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The generalised Poincaré conjecture has since been shown for all dimensions greater than 4, but the original conjecture has so far remained unproven.
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Bacon's history is open to the world, from his boyhood to his death in old age -- a history consisting of known facts, displayed in minute and multitudinous detail; _facts_, not guesses and conjectures and might-have-beens.
Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
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How Dustin would have managed to submit himself to a real auteur like Bergman must remain a matter for conjecture.
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This conjecture was worked on by many famous mathematicians.
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Berkeley Math Prof Edward Frenkel Branches Out Into Erotic Film: University of California-Berkeley Professor Edward Frenkel is world-renowned for his work with automorphic representations and the geometric Langlands conjecture.
Archive 2010-06-06
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As you may imagine, the gossip farmers have been reaping a bumper crop of conjecture on the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quite why the Home office felt her crime was unworthy of her being extradited is a matter for conjecture: could it be that as a Communist she enjoys special protection from Labour sympathisers?
A Useful Lesson for Lefty Europhiles
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But, as the conjecture goes this nucleon-chemistry might be life-like, giving rise to the micron man.
Neutron Star at Core of Cas A Has Carbon Atmosphere | Universe Today
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First, some twenty-five years ago in the former Soviet Union interest in Peirce and Karl Popper had led logicians and computer scientists like Victor Finn and Dmitri Pospelov to try to find ways in which computer programs could generate Peircean hypotheses (Popperian “conjectures”) in semeiotic contexts (non-numerical or qualitative contexts).
Nobody Knows Nothing
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If, however, the person who first made the conjecture, afterwards became an editor, and gave it in his own text, while, in the mean time, it had been adopted by some other editor, the 'conj.' is omitted.
The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising
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Whether the business will survive another ten years is pure conjecture.
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There's been a lot of conjecture in the papers recently about the royal marriage.
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And if so, has your colleague proved or disproved his conjecture?
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Whether the business will survive another ten years is pure conjecture.
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Second, unbeknownst to him, several items he depends on from other academics to be facts are sadly outright fabrications: 1. There is no *safin- in Etruscan, a word conjectured from an Italic ethnonym.
Archive 2009-12-01
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If a bold conjecture is falsified, then all that is learnt is that yet another crazy idea has been proved wrong.
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Like this: it was "conjectured" -- though not established -- that Satan was originally an angel in heaven; that he fell; that he rebelled, and brought on a war; that he was defeated, and banished to perdition.
Is Shakespeare Dead?
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What leads a mathematician to make a conjecture?
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Thus, this conjecture of Artin was the origin of a wide range of activities in what is now called arithmetic geometry.
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So calmly was it done, so imperturbable were all the black countenances, that I half began to conjecture that the chaplain himself intended it for a hymn, though I could imagine no propsective rhyme for trouble unless it were approximated by debbil, which is, indeed, a favorite reference, both with the men and with his Reverence.
Army Life in a Black Regiment
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Mere speculation or conjecture that this would happen is not enough evidence of direct injury to support standing.
Christianity Today
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I just have problems suspending my disbelief of unverified conjecture on a universe none of us can see.
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Red Cow never saw Marcus O'Brien again, and though many conjectures were entertained, no certain clew was ever gained to dispel the mystery of his passing.
The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
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This led to several papers, culminating in a proof twelve years later of a conjecture of Siegel giving an asymptotic relationship satisfied by the class number, the regulator, and the discriminant of an algebraic number field.
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Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail.
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The conjecture is that speculators are acting on insider information.
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You might want to check out the police site frequently as that is where the news hounds from the Main Stream Media get their facts, the conjecture they supply, though.
Toronto Score Card
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To those, yes, American democrats who quibble, cavil, and lose themselves in conjecture over the risks to which the judge who allows a criminal to live subjects honest people, we countered with Maïmonides's axiom: "It is more satisfying to acquit thousands of the guilty than to execute one sole innocent man.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty
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Based on experimental evidence he was able to conjecture certain laws which were not verified until many years later.
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So for several years and before the detailed proof of Zhu and Cao's paper published on the Asian Journal of Mathematics, no import mathematical experts can say the Poincare conjecture is correct.
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So we both alleged a state of utter repletion, and did not solve the mystery of the contents of the cupboard, -- not too luxurious, it may be conjectured, and yet kindly offered, so that we felt there was a moist filament of the social instinct running like a nerve through that exsiccated and almost anhydrous organism.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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For example, from string-theoretic considerations, Candelas, de la Ossa, Green, and Parkes conjectured the correct formula for the number of degree d rational curves in a Calabi-Yau quintic.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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You must not be influenced by sentiment, conjecture, sympathy, passion, prejudice, public opinion, or public feeling.
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What we have is conjecture, the useful surprise of a grammatical mismatch, the thrill of syntactic breakdown, the wild happiness of a solecism typed into Microsoft Word and printed out by Packard Bell.
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She didn't know the facts; what she said was pure conjecture.
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Third, scientists should regard theories as at best interesting conjectures.
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Without the corroboration of suitable theoretical supports, no intuitive belief can count as more than mere conjecture.
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As you may imagine, the gossip farmers have been reaping a bumper crop of conjecture on the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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The impugners of the work were in the same helpless predicament as its author, who had, however, more venturously presumed to unravel unsearchable mysteries, concerning which, in the existing state of science, men can only conjecture, wonder, and adore, utterly unable to affirm or deny aught respecting them.
An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
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By then, arrowheads were normally socketed, but it is a matter of conjecture as to how many arrows were expected to be recovered, even if you were the victors.
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And any suggestion to the contrary is just pure conjecture.
The Sun
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The clerk, as I conjectured him to be from his appearance, was also commoved; for, sitting opposite to Mr. Morris, that honest gentleman's terror communicated itself to him, though he wotted not why.
Archaism.
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We are inclined to conjecture the _s_ a genitival one, supplying the place of a missing _of_ and _von_ respectively.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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It was conjectured that a spiral walkway would have led around the hill allowing a procession to reach the 120-foot high summit for pre-historic ceremonies.
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She resembles nothing more than one of those Neolithic ‘goddess’ figurines for which a fertility significance is usually conjectured.
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This work continues the tradition of mathematical experiment to help discover patterns, suggest conjectures, and develop new theorems.
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For since bones afford not only rectitude and stability but figure unto the body, it is no impossible physiognomy to conjecture at fleshy appendencies, and after what shape the muscles and carnous parts might hang in their full consistencies.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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How far the older varieties resemble what we now see is a matter for conjecture.
Food Watch
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And PRUDENCE is nothing else but conjecture from experience, or taking signs of experience warily, that is, that the experiments from which one taketh such signs be all remembered; for else the cases are not alike, that seem so.
The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
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In August 2003 the computer program made conjecture 1001 stating that for any benzenoid graph, the size of a maximum matching equals the number of positive eigenvalues.
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How far the older varieties resemble what we now see is a matter for conjecture.
Food Watch
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They conjecture that an evolutionary quantum leap happened after an archaebacterium swallowed a eubacterium.
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We hope that primary prevention of attempted suicide will not continue to be solely a focus for conjecture.
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The Poincare conjecture belongs to the field of topology, which studies properties that are preserved when a shape is stretched or twisted without tearing.
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It remains for future investigation to determine how far this conjecture is founded in truth; and whether in the blood of the mongoos there exists any element or quality which acts as a prophylactic.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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Every film, he conjectured, is made in different stages and the first stagewhich is so greatis when you dream and theorize about what film you can make.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Guillermo Arriaga.
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And to be unfeminine - too masculine, in other words - is to invite savage personal attacks, intense scrutiny, and conjectures about one's sexuality.
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Beaumont, Elie de, on the uplifting of mountain chains, 51, 300; influence of the rocks of melaphyre and serpentine, on pendulum experiments, 167; conjectures on the quartz strata of the Col de la Poissoniere, 266.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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[Warburton explained this as "the critical juncture"] How the _critical juncture_ is the _spy o 'the time_ I know not, but I think my own conjecture right.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Nor need we hesitate to conjecture further that in the planning of the town, as in that of the camp, Greek influence may have added a more rigid use of rectangular 'insulae'.
Ancient Town-Planning
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed thunder-besom is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning.
Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
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The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter's departure from its initially predicted orbit.
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And has the conjecture been supported by rigorous mathematics or a mere dismissal?
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He is also eager to forestall conjecture about the captaincy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Immediately after the accident it was conjectured that the dress had caught fire through contact with a cigarette or a lighted match, thrown down from a higher place above the stairs.
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He is also eager to forestall conjecture about the captaincy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Henchard left the house with a ton of conjecture, though without a grain of proof, that the counterattraction was
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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What it signifies I cannot conjecture, except it had some reference to a certain legend of a bloody footstep, which is currently told, and some token of which yet remains on one of the thresholds of the ancient mansion-house.
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
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The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter's departure from its initially predicted orbit.
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Hardy's friend MacMahon, who at that time was preparing a book on Combinatory Analysis, formulated the identities in partition theoretic form, but stated these as unproved conjectures in his book.
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For example, from string-theoretic considerations, Candelas, de la Ossa, Green, and Parks conjectured the correct formula for the number of degree d rational curves in a Calabi-Yau quintic.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed “thunder-besom” is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning.
The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
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We may conjecture that in both places the notion of invulnerability is suggested by the position of the plant, which, occupying a place of comparative security above the ground, appears to promise to its fortunate possessor a similar security from some of the ills that beset the life of man on earth.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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What no one is yet prepared to do is go on record as saying he has proved the Poincare Conjecture.
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So we sat, the last few hours, thinking about the last few months and making conjectures about the future.
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The music, the agency conjectured, might drown out crucial security announcements on the P.A. system.
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For my own part, I fairly confess that I am bewildered, and have not certain postulata enough, not only to found any opinion, but even to form conjectures upon: and this is the language which I think you should hold to all who speak to you, as to be sure all will, upon that subject.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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The attitudes of others were matters of conjecture although there were plenty of rumours about how individuals had behaved.
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But the strangest thing about them was, that in every picture the canvas about the head was pricked through and through in scores of places with very fine clean holes, and, looking around in his marvel, he found an arbalist or cross-bow, with some very sharp bolts, and was so led to conjecture that some one had been setting these heads of the Protector up as a target, and shooting bolts at them.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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Among the chatterati these days the favorite topic of conjecture is what the catastrophic Gulf oil spill means for President Obama.
Laissez-Faire Meets the Oil Spill
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As you may imagine, the gossip farmers have been reaping a bumper crop of conjecture on the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would they consider preconceived biases having influenced their conjectures?
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The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter's departure from its initially predicted orbit.
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Whether or not this would have a detrimental effect on the tourists in the long run is a matter of conjecture.
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Here also I first tasted pulque; and on a first impression it appears to me, that as nectar was the drink in Olympus, we may fairly conjecture that Pluto cultivated the maguey in his dominions.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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Don't conjecture about the outcome.
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The dissimilitude is so striking, that the utmost you can here pretend to is a guess, a conjecture, a presumption concerning a similar cause; and how that pretension will be received in the world, I leave you to consider.
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the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture
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Ashburner had seen Edwards driving a magnificent trotter about Oldport, but could not exactly fancy him outside of a horse, and conjectured that he would not make quite so good a figure as when leading the redowa down
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
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IV. iii.27 (` is rest to do more exploits with his mace than a morris pike] [W: a Maurice-pike] This conjecture is very ingenious, yet the commentator talks unnecessarily of the _rest of a musket. _ by which he makes the hero of the speech set up the _rest_ of a _musket, _ to do exploits with a _pike.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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The log, I conjecture, is odum or ebony, and it is some fifty feet long; anyhow it is some sort of wood that won't float.
Travels in West Africa
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Which of these conflicting sides of the country will prevail became a matter of intense conjecture after the Kursk disaster.
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The refreshing night breeze suddenly seemed much more appealing than spending the next half hour sitting amongst people who were making false conjectures about me.
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That “work,” Freud conjectured, was for the ego to detach itself from the deceased or in his sexual world-view, for the libido to withdraw from the love object so that it could reattach itself to someone else.
The Truth About Grief
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As you may imagine, the gossip farmers have been reaping a bumper crop of conjecture on the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mere speculation or conjecture that this would happen is not enough evidence of direct injury to support standing.
Christianity Today
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Although less than the full Shimura - Taniyama conjecture, this result does imply that the elliptic curve given above is modular, thereby proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
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China's overall prospects are explicated given specific caveat concerning China's distinctive pragmatic and cautious approach of implementing a market system along a political control by a one party system -- its longevity and stability will be subject to conjecture.
Nake M. Kamrany: China's Growing Economic Strength in the 21st Century
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To them, therefore, I had to feign feigning: I had to feign, that is, that I was feigning to keep their confidence, but that in reality that I was betraying it; while to Mr. Chiffinch I had to disclose these precious secrets not as true but as false, and conjecture with him what was the truth.
Oddsfish!
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But all this I conjecture only, from sensations which may be nervously illusive.
Letter 406
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My conjecture is that he owes his restlessness and volatility to his Spanish blood from his mother's side.
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These problems form the basis of a conjecture: every elliptic curve defined over the rational field is a factor of the Jacobian of a modular function field.
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Mr. Pinchin could understand French, though he spoke it but indifferently; but he, being fairly Primed, and in one of his Obstinate Moods, musters up his best parleyvoo, and tells the Ancient with the Golden Key (and I saw that he had another one hung round his neck by a parcel chain, and conjectured him to be a High Chamberlain at least) to go to the Devil.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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Your theory is pure conjecture.
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Pure idealogical conjecture … I guess the fact that history tends to repeat itself (a true claim) means that you can claim such an occurance is currently happening without actual facts or proof to said claim.
Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism
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To date the greenhouse-effect debate has been largely carried out in abstractions — arguments about the distant past (what do those 100,000-year-old ice cores in Greenland really tell us about ancient temperatures, anyway?) coupled to computer-model conjecture regarding the 22nd century, with the occasional Hollywood disaster movie thrown in.
Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?
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As you may imagine, the gossip farmers have been reaping a bumper crop of conjecture on the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a titanic clash of science and sensationalism, this crafty cephalopod was conjectured to be the "most intelligent invertebrate ever" -- so talented, in fact, that it sculpted "the earliest known self-portrait" using the bones of its prey.
Steven Newton: Unleash the Kraken! Creationism, Kookiness, and Alleged Censorship
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Most of the answers were about nonpractical aspects of the product, future conjecture and not addressing user needs at all.
Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds.
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Elemental cowboy concerns of earth and air are replaced by the abstract academic conjectures of scientists.
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist, and the laborious collator some unlucky moment frolicks in conjecture.
Preface to Shakespeare
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You get the sense that, no matter what the outcome(sentence dictionary), everyone suffers from this kind of racial conjecture.
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Further, it was conjectured that the adolescents mistook superficial emotions, such as excitement and security, for genuine feelings of well-being.
