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surmit

surmit verb: to surmise.

Verb

surmit (third-person singular simple present surmits, present participle surmitting, simple past and past participle surmitted)

  1. (obsolete) to surmise.
    • John Scargill, named in the sayd byll, made such wyll of the same maner, landes, tenements and other premyses, and every of them, as is surmytted by the same byll; and over that, sayth althings as in the saydbyll is surmytted[…]1490, Letter to Sir Robart Plompton, knyght
    • And with this matier you may also declare vnto him, howe thinformacion made that his Oratours here could not haue audience in vi monethes was vntruly surmytted vnto him, as they haue themselfes confessed[…]1537, Thomas Cromwell, Letter to Sir Thomas Wyatt

Forms of surmit

third-person singular presentsurmits
present participlesurmitting
past participlesurmitted
pastsurmitted

Origin of surmit

Borrowed from French surmetre, ultimately from Latin supermitto.

Questions about surmit

What does surmit mean?
Surmit means to surmise.
What part of speech is surmit?
Surmit is a verb.
What is the past tense of surmit?
The past tense of surmit is surmitted.

Words near surmit in the dictionary

  1. surmises
  2. surmising
  3. surmisings
  4. surmission
  5. surmissions
  6. surmit
  7. surmoulage
  8. surmoulages
  9. surmount
  10. surmountability
  11. surmountable

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