Now rare. [f. as prec. + -AL 5.] = SURMISE sb.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., II. Introd. From this needlesse surmisall I shall hope to disswade the intelligent … auditor.
1657. North’s Plutarch (1676), Add. Lives 40. All the aforesaid cavils … are … founded on bare surmisals and forged stories.
1676. Glanvill, Ess. Philos. & Relig., IV. 1. Those unkind surmisals concerning natural Wisdom.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 27 Dec., 7/2. If this surmisal be erroneous.
