conjecturer

American  

[kuhn-jek-cher-er] / kənˈdʒɛk tʃər ər /

noun

• conjecturers
  plural

1. a person who conjectures, especially one who is in the habit of doing so.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• conjecturers
  plural

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conjecturer conjecturers

And amusing it is to watch the historical conjecturer of a romantic poem perilously creeping along the dark passages of secret history; but he is often at a stand.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

The conjecturer is out, and knows nothing of the matter. 

From Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe

As I am a poor conjecturer, I put on a blank expression and shook my head.

From Simon the Jester by William John Locke

It might be that the object of conjecture had fled in the belief that the conjecturer was none other than Widewood's master.

From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable

It required “the hound’s fine footing,” to borrow the beautiful figure of Spenser himself, for our conjecturer to course in this field of allegory.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

The theorists and conjecturers wondered how the Republican South would be recognized, what new Californians might be taken to Washington, whether Mrs. Willebrandt would get her long-sought judgeship, etc., etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is merely one of the many evidences that all verbal conjecturers must often stumble on the same suggestions.

From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

The conjecturers, the combination, and the declaration of war, exist no where but in the Doctor's pericranium.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous