surmise

源自古法語 surmis，surmetre、surmettre (“指责”)的过去分词，源自sur- (“上”) + metre (“放置”)。

surmises of jealousy or of envy

This opinion, however, is merely a surmise, which may or may not be the case.

但是这个观点只是猜测，可能对也可能不对。

But ſurely no Man whatſoever ought in Justice or good Manners to be charged with Principles he actually diſowns, unleſs his Practices do openly and without the leaſt Room for Doubt, contradict his Profeſſion: Not upon ſmall Surmiſes, or becauſe he has the Miſfortune to have Ill Men ſometimes agree with him in a few general Sentiments.

1721, anonymous [Jonathan Swift], “The Sentiments of a Church of England-man with Respect to Religion and Government. Written in the Year, 1708”, 出自 Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 4th版, Dublin: Printed by S. Fairbrother, book-seller, and are to be sold at his shop in Skinner-Row, over against the Tholsel, →OCLC，頁號 61:

The meeting had been devoid of incident. No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted. I was intrigued.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, 章號 32, 出自 The Moon and Sixpence: A Novel (Heinemann's Colonial Library of Popular Fiction), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:

In short, the chances of the Princes Street terminal's survival seem unsure, though at the moment these views are no more than surmise.

1962 April, “Talking of Trains: The future of Princes Street”, 出自 Modern Railways，頁號 227:

My Thought, whoſe Murther yet is but fantaſticall, / Shakes ſo my ſingle ſtate of Man, / That Function is ſmother'd in ſurmiſe, / And nothing is, but what is not.

c. 1606?, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, act I, scene iii，頁號 133: