SURMISE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, allegation, charge, from Anglo-French, from feminine of surmis, past participle of surmettre to place on, suppose, accuse, from Medieval Latin supermittere, from Late Latin, to place on, from Latin super- + mittere to let go, send Date: 1569 a thought or idea based on scanty evidence ; conjecture , II. transitive verb (~d; surmising) Etymology: Middle English, to allege, from ~, noun Date: 1700 to form a notion of from scanty evidence ; imagine , infer