conject

Latin conjectus.

• enPR: kən-jĕktʹ, IPA^(key): /kən.ˈd͡ʒɛkt/
• Rhymes: -ɛkt

conject (third-person singular simple present conjects, present participle conjecting, simple past and past participle conjected)

1. (obsolete) To conjecture.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Shapes faults that are not) that your wisedome
     From one, that so imperfectly conceits

2. (obsolete) To throw together, or to throw.
   • 1625, Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem: a just Appeale from two unjust Informers:

     these men […] congested and conjected at a masse upon the church of England

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “conject”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.