n
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
v
Obsolete spelling of appeared
n
Obsolete form of argument. [(countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.]
n
(uncountable, archaic) Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof.
adv
Per your request. As you have requested.
v
To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
v
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
n
A feature that shows something to be authentic.
v
(transitive) To opine, think, reckon.
v
(obsolete) to propose hypothetical cases
v
(obsolete) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
v
(law, Scotland) To examine; to give judgment.
v
(obsolete) To conjecture.
n
The power to influence or produce an effect.
v
(intransitive, by extension) Chiefly in the form I daresay: to venture to say (as the speaker believes something is likely to be the case); to think something probable; to presume.
v
See distinctly (with the eyes or the mind); distinguish (an object or fact); discern.
v
(transitive, intransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
v
Obsolete spelling of deliberate [(transitive) To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind.]
n
The act of detecting or sensing something; discovering something that was hidden or disguised.
v
Defend, explain, and/or justify.
v
(transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.
v
(colloquial, intransitive) To experience déjà vu; to see (something) as though having seen it before.
v
To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
adj
(chess) having a nondecisive advantage; slightly winning
v
(colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
n
Alternative form of guesswork [An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.]
v
(intransitive) To make a guesstimate.
n
Alternative spelling of guesstimation [(derogatory) An estimation made without good justification and often biased.]
v
To have grounds, justification etc. (to do something, or for something).
v
(transitive, intransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.
adj
Open to entry or examination.
n
(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
v
Obsolete spelling of justify [(transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.]
v
(reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
n
(idiomatic) A real-life person or thing which demonstrates the validity of a hypothesis.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure. To be excited or eager to.
n
(idiomatic) An expression of support to a position that has already been proposed and seconded after someone has already said "me too." Can be continued as me four, me five, and so on.
v
(transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
n
A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
v
Alternative form of outguess [(transitive) to beat through accurate anticipation of someone's plans and actions.]
v
To interpret something in a particular way
v
(transitive, now rare) To perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission.
n
Obsolete form of proof. [(countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.]
adj
Serving for trial; probationary.
adj
Openly declared or acknowledged.
adj
Used in proving or testing.
n
Alternative spelling of proof of concept [A short and/or incomplete realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility.]
v
Obsolete form of prosper. [(transitive) To favor; to render successful.]
n
(obsolete) An act of considering; estimation.
n
An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
n
cause, interest or account
n
Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
v
To understand the reason or motivation for doing something.
n
A choice where every alternative has significant negative consequences.
v
(intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
v
(transitive) To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
n
(countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
v
(transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
v
(obsolete) To calculate; to compute; to reckon; to supputate.
v
(intransitive) To guess.
adv
Used to introduce a proposal.
n
Obsolete spelling of estimation [The process of making an estimate.]
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