surmisant

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adjective

Aware through having made a surmise; suspecting.

Scrabble 11

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adjectivesurmisant (comparative more surmisant, superlative most surmisant)

comparative more surmisant · superlative most surmisant

  1. Aware through having made a surmise; suspecting.

    At the well-known pipe of all hands, every one in the least degree surmisant of the brewing mutiny felt in his inmost soul that something was forthcoming most "material to the issue."

    1838, The Metropolitan, volume 21, page 308

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Chicago

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