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surmiser|sɜːˈmaɪzə(r)|
Also 6 surmowser, -mysar, 7 Anglo-Ir. -misher.
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
One who surmises.
†1. One who makes allegations or charges (esp. ill-founded or malicious) against some one; a (false) accuser. Obs.
c1515Cock Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 11 Surmowsers, yll thynkers, and make brasers. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 248 He made & autorised suche surmisers & piekers of quereles to bee his deputies. 1588–9Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 358 Surmysaris and forgearis of leyis. 1619in Fortescue Papers (Camden) 78 The burden would lye upon them as upon partiall surmisers and promoters. a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) I. 142 Not well understandinge the fetch and groundes of the surmishers.
2. One who makes a surmise or conjecture (esp. ill-founded); spec. (with qualifying word, as evil) one who suspects evil of another.
1591Greene Maiden's Dr. Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 313 The brainsicke and illiterate surmisers, That like to Saints would holy be in lookes. 1632Lithgow Trav. viii. 339 Let not surmisers thinke, ambition led My second toyles, more flash-flowne praise to wed. 1678Lively Oracles ii. §39, I should first desire these surmisers to point out the time when, and the persons who began this design. 1710Palmer Proverbs 39 Evil surmisers. 1843Newman Lett. (1891) II. 423 Tom may suspect it and Copeland, so may Church and Marriott. Indeed, I cannot name the limit of surmisers. 1883G. Macdonald Castle Warlock III. iii. 49 There is something here that wants looking into—if not by an old surmiser, yet by the young women themselves! |