surmit

present singular third person surmits · participle present surmitting · participle past surmitted · past surmitted

1. obsoleteto surmise.

   They were fantasticall imagined, Onely as in my dreame I did surmit.

   1570, Francis Thynne, The debate betweene Pride and Lowlines

   2 more examples

   John Scargill, named in the sayd byll, made such wyll of the same maner, landes, tenements and other premyses, and every of them, as is surmytted by the same byll; and over that, sayth althings as in the saydbyll is surmytted[…]

   1490, Letter to Sir Robart Plompton, knyght

   And with this matier you may also declare vnto him, howe thinformacion made that his Oratours here could not haue audience in vi monethes was vntruly surmytted vnto him, as they haue themselfes confessed[…]

   1537, Thomas Cromwell, Letter to Sir Thomas Wyatt