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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
suppose \suppose"\, v. t. imp. p. p. supposed; p. pr.
vb. n. supposing. f. supposer; pref. sub- under + poser
to place; -- corresponding in meaning to l. supponere,
suppositum, to put under, to substitute, falsify,
counterfeit. see pose.
1. to represent to one's self, or state to another, not as
true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some
consequence or application which the reality would involve
or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of
argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us
suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what
would be the result?
1913 webster
suppose they take offence without a cause. --shak.
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when we have as great assurance that a thing is, as
we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not
to make any doubt of its existence. --tillotson.
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2. to imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
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how easy is a bush supposed a bear --shak.
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let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the
young men, the king's sons; for amnon only is dead.
--2 sam. xiii.
32.
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3. to require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of
thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.
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one falsehood always supposes another, and renders
all you can say suspected. --female
quixote.
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4. to put by fraud in the place of another. obs.
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syn: to imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view;
regard; conjecture; assume.
1913 webster
see also:
supposed supposing pose
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
suppose \suppose"\, v. i.
to make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. --acts ii.
15.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
suppose \suppose"\, n.
supposition. obs. --shak. "a base suppose that he is
honest." --dryden.
1913 webster
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
suppose
v 1: express a supposition; "let us say that he did not tell the
truth"; "let's say you had a lot of money--what would
you do?" syn: say
2: expect, believe, or suppose; "i imagine she earned a lot of
money with her new novel"; "i thought to find her in a bad
state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "i
guess she is angry at me for standing her up" syn: think,
opine, imagine, reckon, guess
3: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
"scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize,
hypothesise, hypothecate
4: take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "i
presuppose that you have done your work" syn: presuppose
5: require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "this
step presupposes two prior ones" syn: presuppose
see also:
say think opine imagine reckon guess
speculate theorize theorise conjecture hypothesize
hypothesise hypothecate presuppose
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
113 moby thesaurus words for "suppose":
account, account as, adjudge, adjudicate, allegorize, allow,
allude to, assume, be afraid, be judicious, believe, bring to mind,
coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, conclude, concoct,
conjecture, connote, consider, count, create, daresay, deduce,
deem, divine, dream, dream up, entail, esteem, estimate,
exercise judgment, expect, experience imaginatively,
express an opinion, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, feel,
fictionalize, form an opinion, gather, grant, guess, hatch,
have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling,
have the idea, hint, hold, hold as, hypothesize, ideate, imagine,
implicate, imply, import, infer, insinuate, intimate, invent,
involve, judge, let, let be, look upon as, maintain, mean,
mean to say, mold, opine, originate, perhaps, pine,
point indirectly to, posit, postulate, prefigure, presume,
presuppose, presurmise, pretend, produce, provisionally accept,
reckon, regard, repute, say, set down as, shape, speculation,
suggest, supposition, surmise, suspect, take, take for,
take for granted, take it, take to be, theorize, think,
think likely, think of, think up, trow, understand, venture to say,
view as, ween
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