Word For The Day, Monday, August 11, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/11/03 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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surmise \sur*myze\, verb, transitive/intransitive; noun
surmising, surmised, surmises

1. To infer (something) without sufficiently conclusive evidence
2. To make a guess or conjecture
3. Reflection; thought. [Obs.]
4. An idea or opinion based on insufficiently conclusive evidence; a conjecture.

It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true. --Dryden.

Etymology: [Middle English surmisen, to accuse, from Old French surmise, feminine past participle of surmettre : sur-, sur- + mettre, to put (from Latin mittere).]

[camle]

and absolutely true. One time I was mad at the cat and told her to go upstairs and wake the tyke up - the cat then proceded to do just that!

[Laura Earl]

You forgot smelly.

[hobbes1]

Well, it would depend on the Race actually.


I could not in good conscience vote for him against a reliable conservative, however, in a Race against a machine RINO, or another Dem......

[Texan5]

Hey, don't feel bad-I voted for him the second time around-I thought "better the devil you know than the one you don't"..... (covering her head and diving under her desk)

[camle]

i am of the old school that wouldn't declaw a cat, especially since all of my cats are of the I/O variety.

[VRWCmember]

gave money to mondale.

[xsmommy]

i am speechless.....and APPALLED!

[Gabz]

You're right.

It was crack they were dealing out of a couple of houses across the street from where I used to live.

[hobbes1]

not all, but who is - besides the not-so-humble tiger

In my own defense, it is hard to be humble.....but I do make the effort....

[camle]

i voted for Dole because he was a mason like george washington.

[xsmommy]

after the confessions of the born and raised conservatives on this thread, my pittance to walter is NOTHING!!! i knew clinton was the antichrist the minute i laid eyes on him!

[Laura Earl]

Mine are indoor, and the old cat had destroyed a sofa when I first got him. I didn't want the 2nd cat to do the same, although in retrospect, she probably would not have. She is much calmer than he ever was.

[Texan5]

You're right-there goes the neighborhood. Now just anyone can live there.

[secret garden]

I'm sorry about your kitty. :( Her suffering is over now.

[VRWCmember]

Hey, don't feel bad-I voted for him the second time around-I thought "better the devil you know than the one you don't".

No more, please!!!

[Gabz]

I guess I must have been high - oh wait, not only don't I inhale I don't touch the stuff - so I guess I must have been drunk.....

[xsmommy]

time for you to fess up some horrifying political secret, the rest have done so. vast sold amway, can you BELIEVE it??? ; )

[camle]

i prefer cats to go outdoors from time to time, especially when they have business to perform, if you get my point...

[camle]

this is true, but I do still have 4 more...

[Laura Earl]

I'm feeling much better about voting for Ted in the '80 Democratic primary. After all, I was only 20 years old at the time, and in college working on a journalism degree.