CONJECTURE. Conjectures are ideas or notions founded on probabilities
without any demonstration of their truth. Mascardus has defined conjecture:
"rationable vestigium latentis veritatis, unde nascitur opinio sapientis;"
or a slight degree of credence arising from evidence too weak or too remote
to produce belief. De Prob. vol. i. quoest. 14, n. 14. See Dict. de Trevoux,
h.v.; Denisart, h.v.