单词 | to guess at |
释义 | > as lemmasto guess at a. intransitive. To form conjectures. (†Const. of.) to guess at: to attempt to estimate conjecturally; to hazard a random or insufficiently founded opinion about; to attempt to solve or discover by conjecture. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > form conjectures, guess [verb (intransitive)] divine1362 supposea1393 conjecta1425 guessc1535 rove1551 level1580 conjecture1587 to harp at1611 to venture at1623 to make a shot1840 reach1952 c1535 Ploughman's Tale i. sig. A.iiiv In her sentence..They wyllen gesse in her gay hall. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. iv. sig. C6 More then the letter I haue not to ghesse by. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxii. sig. Vu5v Philoclea..ghessed somewhat at Zelmanes mind. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. I2v Their gentle sex to weepe are often willing, Greeuing themselues to gesse at others smarts. View more context for this quotation 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 63 Wisards, which by conjectures and casting of lots did ghesse of things to come. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 204 Rosse. Let not your eares dispise my tongue for euer, Which shall possesse them with the heauiest sound That euer yet they heard. Macd. Humh: I guesse at it. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. iii. 26 Guesse at her yeares, I prythee. View more context for this quotation 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1480 He is on his birthday..yearely weighed and account kept therof by his Physicians, thereby ghessing at his bodily estate. 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xvii. 127 From the understanding of which, you may the better ghesse at the nature of the rest. 1710 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c27 Mar. (1965) I. 23 By what fine gentlemen say, you know it is not easy to guess at what they mean. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vi. 202 The total amount..can only be rudely guessed at. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 62 Vain endeavours to guess at a riddle. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 61 There was a change, but spare to guess, Nor let that moment's hope be told. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 23 Would I shirk assurance on each point whereat I can but guess—Does the soul survive the body? [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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