surmised, ppl. a.
(sɜːˈmaɪzd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
† 1. Submitted as a charge or information to a court of law; charged upon or alleged against some one; more generally, alleged, supposed. Obs.
| 1530 Sel. Cases Star Chamber (Selden) II. 49 Thanswere of Elys abbott of Croxston to the surmysed byll of compleynt of John Molshoo. 1531 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 102 Under the pretence of that surmysyd new graunt. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. vi. 1 He was charged with the slaunder of a surmysed crime. 1633 Heywood Eng. Trav. iv. Wks. 1874 IV. 73, I shall doubtlesse acquit my selfe Of this surmised murder. 1649 in Def. Rights & Priviledges Univ. Oxf. (1690) 17 Before the time of the grant of those surmised charters to the City of Oxford. |
† 2. Devised falsely, feigned. Obs.
| 1514 Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) 16 This is trewe hystory, & no surmysed fable. |
† 3. Imagined, supposed, fancied. Obs.
| 1578 H. Wotton Courtlie Controv. 237 Some surmised contentation receyued in dreaming. 1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxvii. §1 That his Flesh is meate, and his Bloud drinke, not by surmised imagination, but truely. 1602 J. Manningham Diary (Camden) 63 He..entreated the surmised assured gent. to hold his cardes till he returned. |
4. Inferred conjecturally.
| 1860 Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. cii. III. 5 We are not to sit down under surmised dishonour. 1879 Todhunter Alcestis 109 Beckoning me From the bare known to a surmised beyond. 1899 A. E. Garvie Ritschlian Theol. viii. §6. 257 Love is directed for the furtherance of the recognised or surmised purpose which another sets himself. |