hypothecate

So I'm not going to speculate or hypothecate beyond that.

One can hypothecate certain things.

(The elder Bush gave us such gems as, "I'm not going to hypothecate that it may."

Scientists observe, describe, hypothecate, and predict.

The trouble heretofore has been--I am quoting remarks of planters and steamboatmen--that the planters, although owning the land, were without cash capital; had to hypothecate both land and crop to carry on the business.

Dr. Brook's investigations caused him to hypothecate an asymmetrical relationship between the action and organic life it is applied to, such that an inherent characteristic of the life form determines the effect of the action as well as the inherent characteristics of the action itself.