conjecturable
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It lay, a black mass, and whether it was a vast huddle of weeds, or a great whale killed by the earthquake, or solid land uphove by the volcanic rupture, was not conjecturable.
From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various
How this fall had come about was readily conjecturable: Fitzpiers, imagining there was only old Darling under him, had been taken unawares by the younger horse's sprightliness.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
But formerly, and especially by the theoreticians, by verisimilar was understood historical credibility, or that historical truth which is not demonstrable, but conjecturable, not true, but verisimilar.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
But to ask for some sort of visible or plausibly conjecturable effect is not at all the same thing as to ask for miracles.
From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by William Archer
It is even conjecturable that Carter may have said puribus omnia pura; but if he did so, it was with so droll an accent that his audience laughed again.
From Kathleen by Christopher Morley
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