conjecturalist

English

Etymology

From conjectural +‎ -ist.

Noun

conjecturalist (plural conjecturalists)

1. One who forms conjectures.
   • 1844, The Monthly Review:

     Listen to the plain practical advice, with which he, who was such a conjecturalist in biblical matters, addressed the projector.

Related terms

• conjecturalism

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “conjecturalist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)