intuit

intuit
intuit (v.) 1776, “to tutor,” from L. intuit-, pp. stem of intueri (see INTUITION (Cf. intuition)). Meaning “to perceive directly without reasoning” is from 1840, in this sense perhaps a back formation from intuition. Related: Intuited; intuiting.

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