vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb SURMISE; the framing of conjectures; suspicion, esp. of evil.
1526. Tindale, 1 Tim. vi. 4. Envie, stryfe, realinges, evyll surmysinges, superfluus disputynges.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1629), 340. By surmizings of his owne minding to marre their fortunes.
a. 1653. Binning, Useful Case Consc., i. (1693), 9. Surmisings, whisperings and reports of others.
1828–43. Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), II. 184. James’s late unjustifiable proceedings … had occasioned some unquiet surmisings in the minds of his nobility.
So Surmising ppl. a., that surmises; suspecting, suspicious; † accusing; aiming at (obs.).
1535. Tindale, Tracy’s Test., Wks. (1573), 435/1. A blynd monster and a surmisyng beast, fearyng at the fall of euery leafe.
1601. Weever, Mirr. Mart., D iij. My life-surmising Bishops swolne in rage,… Went to the king.
