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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French surmetre, ultimately from Latin supermitto.
Verb
surmit (third-person singular simple present surmits, present participle surmitting, simple past and past participle surmitted)
- (obsolete) to surmise.
1490, Letter to Sir Robart Plompton, knyght:John Scargill, named in the sayd byll, made such wyll of the same maner, landes, tenements and other premyses, and every of them, as is surmytted by the same byll; and over that, sayth althings as in the saydbyll is surmytted […]
1537, Thomas Cromwell, Letter to Sir Thomas Wyatt:And with this matier you may also declare vnto him, howe thinformacion made that his Oratours here could not haue audience in vi monethes was vntruly surmytted vnto him, as they haue themselfes confessed […]
1570, Francis Thynne, The debate betweene Pride and Lowlines:They were fantasticall imagined, Onely as in my dreame I did surmit.