All 6 Uses of
speculate
in
Mansfield Park
- …after making up the whist-table there would remain sufficient for a round game, and everybody being as perfectly complying and without a choice as on such occasions they always are, speculation was decided on almost as soon as whist; and Lady Bertram soon found herself in the critical situation of being applied to for her own choice between the games, and being required either to draw a card for whist or not.†
Chpt 25
- Whist and speculation; which will amuse me most?†
Chpt 25
- Sir Thomas, after a moment's thought, recommended speculation.†
Chpt 25
- "Very well," was her ladyship's contented answer; "then speculation, if you please, Mrs. Grant.†
Chpt 25
- All the agreeable of her speculation was over for that hour.†
Chpt 25
- …or speculations upon prize-money, which was to be generously distributed at home, with only the reservation of enough to make the little cottage comfortable, in which he and Fanny were to pass all their middle and later life together.
Chpt 38 *speculations = thoughts
Definition:
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(speculate as in: don't know, but I'll speculate) to think about, wonder, guess or theorize with much uncertainty