SPage 417
- English Word Specula Definition of Speculum
- English Word Specular Definition Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.
- English Word Specular Definition Of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination.
- English Word Specular Definition Assisting sight, as a lens or the like.
- English Word Specular Definition Affording view.
- English Word Speculate Definition To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.
- English Word Speculate Definition To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
- English Word Speculate Definition To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock.
- English Word Speculate Definition To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.
- English Word Speculated Definition of Speculate
- English Word Speculating Definition of Speculate
- English Word Speculation Definition The act of speculating.
- English Word Speculation Definition Examination by the eye; view.
- English Word Speculation Definition Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
- English Word Speculation Definition The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
- English Word Speculation Definition The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
- English Word Speculation Definition Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.
- English Word Speculation Definition A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.
- English Word Speculation Definition Power of sight.
- English Word Speculation Definition A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
- English Word Speculatist Definition One who speculates, or forms theories; a speculator; a theorist.
- English Word Speculative Definition Given to speculation; contemplative.
- English Word Speculative Definition Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration.
- English Word Speculative Definition Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious.
- English Word Speculative Definition Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.
- English Word Speculator Definition One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.
- English Word Speculator Definition One who forms theories; a theorist.
- English Word Speculator Definition One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price.
- English Word Speculatorial Definition Speculatory; speculative.
- English Word Speculatory Definition Intended or adapted for viewing or espying; having oversight.