surmisal

Not that these surmisals are unreasonable--they simply remind one that serious biography is in some sense a luxury, dependent on the availability of useful sources.

At a later place (794-95), he will again list the various similarities Galen postulated between male and female genitals and say "This is totally absurd and shows little evidence of an anatomist." [25] Unfortunately I can offer only surmisals about his motives.

I am intrigued by this possibility of consent,[2] but I suspect that our surmisals here about the empathetic consent of organ failure patients who wait unsuccessfully on the queue are romantic and quite distort their actual feelings.