vbl. sb. Obs. [f. CONJECT v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CONJECT.
1. Divining, guessing, conjecture.
1382. Wyclif, Ezek. xxi. 19. In hoond he shal take coniectynge, or suspicioun.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Melib., ¶ 442. By certeyn presumpciouns and conjectinges.
2. Devising, plotting, conspiracy. [In this sense congetting was used by Caxton, etc.]
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, xxxvii. 9. Be the fals coniettyng of his wyf that so falsly reved hym his lyf. Ibid., xlvii. 56. Thanne … bethowhte hym this fals kyng of a fals tresown … be coniectyng.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., cciv. 186. They were put oute thurgh the false congettynges of spencers.
