Definition of Speculates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of speculate) ¹

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Definition of Speculates

1. speculate [v] - See also: speculate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Speculates

spectrum analyzers
spectrum disorder
spectrum line
spectrums
specula
specular
specular glare
specular image
specularities
specularity
specularization
specularizations
specularly
speculate
speculated
speculates (current term)
speculating
speculation
speculations
speculatist
speculatists
speculative
speculative damages
speculative fiction
speculative fictions
speculative philosophies
speculative philosophy
speculatively
speculativeness
speculativity

Literary usage of Speculates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris: Minister of the United States to by Gouverneur Morris (1888)
"Tact of the hostess. Clermont-Tonnerre reads a discourse. Necker speculates as to the issue of one hundred and thirty millions of paper money. ..."

2. Mind and Hand: Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education by Charles Henry Ham (1900)
"The mind speculates; the hand tests the speculations of the mind by the law of practical application. The hand explodes the errors of the mind, ..."

3. Mind and Hand: Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education by Charles Henry Ham (1900)
"The Mind and the Hand are Allies ; the Mind speculates, ... The mind speculates; the hand tests the speculations of the mind by the law of practical ..."

4. The Gentlest Art: A Choice of Letters, by Entertaining Hands by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"... Cowper speculates on the Picts <2> ^y (To the Rev. John Newton) November 30, 1783 MY DEAR FRIEND, — I have neither long visits to pay nor to receive, ..."

5. The Gentlest Art: A Choice of Letters by Entertaining Hands by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"... Cowper speculates on the Picts <^ *o (To the Rev. John Newton) November 30, 1783 MY DEAR FRIEND, — I have neither long visits to pay nor to receive, ..."

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