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		sigkill on July 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Confession of a Haskell Hacker Yep. Dictionary.com calls it obsolete. Webster wants me to pay, and OED can't find it. conject late 14c., obs. verb replaced by conjecture (v.). Also in form congette.

andrewcooke on July 8, 2012 [–]

my concise oxford dictionary (dead tree, c 1984) lists conjecture as a verb (not marked as obsolete).

tikhonj on July 8, 2012 | [–]

It's the word "conject" that's obsolete, not "conjecture".

andrewcooke on July 8, 2012 | | [–]

oh, sorry, mis-followed the conversation.

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