conjecturern.
/kənˈdʒɛktjʊərə/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [noun] > augur, diviner from omens
augura1393
auguryne?a1425
conjectora1425
augurerc1450
augurizer1588
conjecturer1612
augurya1616
augurist1623
auspicator1652
omen-monger1777
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > interpretation of dreams > [noun] > one who practises
readerOE
dream readera1387
conjectora1425
dream doctor1545
dream interpreter?1611
conjecturer1612
dream-tellera1641
oneirocritica1652
dream-speller1652
oneiropolist1652
oneiromancer1653
oneiromantist1653
oneirocrite1693
oneiroscopist1727
oneirologist1834
1612 R. Sheldon 1st Serm. after Conversion 48 Who is so simple a coniecturer as cannot presage vpon whose head the beane would be bruised.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 309 A certain Courser..dreamt..that he was carried thither in a Chariot: and consulting a Conjecturer upon it, [etc.].
1684 tr. H. C. Agrippa Vanity Arts & Sci. (new ed.) xxxix. 105 Dreams..whose Interpreters are properly call'd Conjecturers.
1718 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft xii. 146 Observers of the flying of Birds, Conjecturers.
1736 Disc. Witchcraft 6 Conjurers, or Conjecturers..so called from their guessing at the future Event of Things.
2. One who makes conjectures.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > [noun] > one who guesses
guesserc1440
conjector1554
conjecturer1605
conjecturalist1664
second-guesser1939
guesstimator1948
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > conjectural reading > one who makes
conjecturer1605
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence i. 18 These wittie coniecturers seem to forget that the Saxons when first they had this name, were vnacquainted with the Latin toung.
1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. iv. xii. 272.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 271. ¶3 I shall leave these wise Conjecturers to their own Imaginations.
1765 S. Johnson Pref. to Shakespear's Plays p. lxi The collator's province is safe and easy, the conjecturer's perilous and difficult.
1880 Dowden in Academy 16 Oct. 270 A student..who possesses the first folio..may defy the race of Commentators and Conjecturers.
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