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▪ I. † conject, v. Obs.|kənˈdʒɛkt|
Also 5 congette, coniette; pa. tense coniecte.
[ad. L. conjectā-re to cast together, conjecture, guess, conclude, infer, freq. of conjicĕre (ppl. stem conject-) to throw together, etc., f. con- together + jacĕre to throw. In sense 3, congette, from the Fr. form congete-r, was used by Caxton and his comtemporaries.]
1. = conjecture v. 3.
a. trans. (or with obj. clause.)
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. vi. 27, I coniecte þat þere lakkeþ I not what. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. i. (1495) 3 What so euer ony man wyll coniecte, feyne, ymagyne, suppose or saye. 1523Surrey in St. Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 38 What I conject the seid Duke woll doo. 1531Elyot Gov. iii. xxv, If they wyl coniecte histories to be lyes. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §29 Some Writers haue laboured to conject the true cause. 1613T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. (1674) 235 We may conject the reason of these ballances. a1734North Exam. i. iii. §71 (1740) 175 How far he was disposed to join with the Party..we may conject.
b. intr.
1388Wyclif Ezek. xxi. 19 He shal coniecte [1382 gesse] in the heed of the weie of the citee. 1565–73Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Coniectura, Aberrare coniectura, to coniect wrong. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 149 (Qq.) One that so imperfectly conjects [Ff. conceits].
c. To form the hypothesis, suppose. rare.
1588Mellis Briefe Instr. F v, Coniect in your owne imagination, that this..shoppe were a person Debitor.
2. trans. To forecast by signs, augur, divine, prognosticate. Also absol.
1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) i. xxv. 60/2 By faynynge & falshode coniecte & tell to the people thynges that ben to come. 1565–73Cooper Thesaurus, Auguro..to tell by diuination what shall happen: to diuine: to coniect. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) 2 Thess. ii. 2 note, Some [haue] presumed to calculate and coniect by the starres. 1609Holland Amm. Marcel. xxi. 165 Conjecting his death by sundrie presaging tokens.
3. To contrive, devise, plan, plot.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 298 Alle þe newe lawis þat clerkis han maad ben sutilly conjectid by ypocrisie. c1465Eng. Chron. (Camd. 1856) 78 Coniectyng and ymaginyng howe he myghte dystroy theyme. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. clxiv. 148 Traytours that congetted [ed. 1520, p. 92, conjected] falsenesse ageynst hym. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxvi. v, With mortall Envie they did then conjecte To make a finde. 1541Paynel Catiline xix. 38 Thy motions coniected..ageynst me. 1552Huloet, Aduise or coniect how a thyng shall be done, præmeditor.
4. lit. To throw, cast. (rare.)
1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar 298 Nor [do] these men cast on mee particular calumnies, but per satyram congested and conjected at a masse upon the Church of England. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 325 Conjected into wine, it conciliates a certain suavity in drinking.
▪ II. † conject, pa. pple. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. conject-us, pa. pple. of conjicĕre, conicĕre to throw together: used instead of conjected.]
Thrown, cast.
c1543Becon Nosegay Wks. (1843) 196 That so many should be conject and cast into everlasting damnation.
▪ III. † ˈconject, n. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. conject-us (u- stem) casting, cast, f. ppl. stem of conjicĕre: see prec.]
Device, contrivance.
14..Epiph. in Tundale's Vis. 108 They schall askape..For all the conjecte of thy prynces wyse. |