ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
† 1. Submitted as a charge or information to a court of law; charged upon or alleged against some one; more generally, alleged, supposed. Obs.
1530. Sel. Cases Star Chamber (Selden), II. 49. Thanswere of Elys abbott of Croxston to the surmysed byll of compleynt of John Molshoo.
1531. in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 102. Under the pretence of that surmysyd new graunt.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. vi. 1. He was charged with the slaunder of a surmysed crime.
1633. Heywood, Eng. Trav., IV. Wks. 1874, IV. 73. I shall doubtlesse acquit my selfe Of this surmised murder.
1649. in Def. Rights & Priviledges Univ. Oxf. (1690), 17. Before the time of the grant of those surmised charters to the City of Oxford.
† 2. Devised falsely, feigned. Obs.
1514. Barclay, Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.), 16. This is trewe hystory, & no surmysed fable.
† 3. Imagined, supposed, fancied. Obs.
1578. H. Wotton, Courtlie Controv., 237. Some surmised contentation receyued in dreaming.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lxvii. § 1. That his Flesh is meate, and his Bloud drinke, not by surmised imagination, but truely.
1602. J. Manningham, Diary (Camden), 63. He … entreated the surmised assured gent. to hold his cardes till he returned.
4. Inferred conjecturally.
1860. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., cii. III. 5. We are not to sit down under surmised dishonour.
1879. Todhunter, Alcestis, 109. Beckoning me From the bare known to a surmised beyond.
1899. A. E. Garvie, Ritschlian. Theol., viii. § 6. 257. Love is directed for the furtherance of the recognised or surmised purpose which another sets himself.
