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hypothesize, v.|hɪp-, haɪˈpɒθɪsaɪz|
[f. hypothesis + -ize.]
1. intr. To frame a hypothesis or supposition.
1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 421 After the Greeks began to hypothesise. 1808Pike Sources Mississ. Ded., When I..presumed to hypothesize, I have merely suggested doubts without conclusions, which, if deemed worth, may hereafter be analyzed by men of genius and science. 1836Darley Introd. Beaum. & Fl.'s Wks. I. 20 It is difficult to apportion their authorship..though easy enough to hypothesize.
2. trans. To make the hypothesis of; to assume.
1856W. H. Thompson in W. A. Butler's Hist. Anc. Philos. I. 317 note, They hypothesize a vacuum through which the emanative particles pass. 1883Nature XXVII. 355 Professor Quincke hypothesizes the presence..of a colourless iron-albumen. 1894Blackw. Mag. Jan. 818 At all social gatherings there is an hypothesised equality of rank.
Hence hypothesizer = hypothesist.
1833J. C. Hare in Philol. Museum II. 249 The slight difficulty attending such a hypothesis..the hypothesizer will reply, may be got over in two ways. |