Meaning & use

Conject

verb·Academic

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To arrive at a conclusion or opinion by guesswork; to conjecture (archaic).

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The old chronicler could only conject at the causes of the kingdom's sudden collapse.

Scholars still conject about the poem's true author.

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"Conject" is an archaic verb largely replaced by "conjecture" in modern English but still appears in older literary texts.

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