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a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence; or the act of forming of such a conclusion or opinion
- It took off the extreme edge of their wonder; and so what with all this and Stubb's confident way of accounting for their appearance, they were for the time freed from superstitious surmisings; though the affair still left abundant room for all manner of wild conjectures as to dark Ahab's precise agency in the matter from the beginning.Chapters 46-48 -- Surmises; The Mat-Maker; The First Lowering (55% in)
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