Syn. -- To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view; regard;
conjecture; assume.
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Sup*pose" (?), v. i. To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.
Acts ii. 15.
Sup*pose", n. Supposition. [Obs.] Shak. "A base suppose that he is
honest." Dryden.
Sup*pose"er (?), n. One who supposes.
Sup`po*si"tion (?), n. [F. supposition, L. suppositio a placing under,
a substitution, fr. supponere, suppositium, to put under, to
substitute. The word has the meaning corresponding to suppose. See
Sub-, and Position.] 1. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining,
or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or
what is not proved.
2. That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or
belief without sufficient evidence.
This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be
true, it is imposible to be false.
Tillotson.
He means are in supposition.
Shak.
Sup`po*si"tion*al (?), a. Resting on supposition; hypothetical;
conjectural; supposed. South.
Sup*pos`i*ti"tious (?), a. [L. suppositicus. See Supposition.] 1.
Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports
to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child;
a supposititious writing. Bacon.