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单词 surmiser
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surmisern.

/səːˈmʌɪzə/
Forms: Also 1500s surmowser, surmysar, 1600s Anglo-Irish -misher.
Etymology: formed as surmise v. + -er suffix1.
One who surmises.
1. One who makes allegations or charges (esp. ill-founded or malicious) against some one; a (false) accuser. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] > one who accuses > often falsely
surmiser?1518
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j Surmowsers yll thynkers and make brasers.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 248 He made & autorised suche surmisers & piekers of quereles to bee his deputies.
1588–9 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. IV. 358 Surmysaris and forgearis of leyis.
1619 in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 78 The burden would lye upon them as upon partiall surmisers and promoters.
a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [noun] > one who distrusts or suspects
mistrusterc1425
surmiser1591
suspectera1625
distruster1636
suspector1804
minimifidian1882
1591 R. Greene Maiden's Dreame in Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 313 The brainsicke and illiterate surmisers, That like to Saints would holy be in lookes.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 339 Let not surmisers thinke, ambition led My second toyles, more flash-flowne praise to wed.
1678 Lively Oracles ii. §39 I should first desire these surmisers to point out the time when, and the persons who began this design.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 39 Evil surmisers.
1843 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) II. 423 Tom may suspect it and Copeland, so may Church and Marriott. Indeed, I cannot name the limit of surmisers.
1883 G. 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!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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