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suppositious

[ suhp-uh-zish-uhs ]

adjective

  1. formed from or growing out of supposition:

    suppositious evidence.



suppositious

/ ˌʌəˈɪʃə /

adjective

  1. deduced from supposition; hypothetical
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Derived Forms

  • ˌܱˈپdzܲ, adverb
  • ˌܱˈپdzܲԱ, noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of suppositious1

First recorded in 1615–25; shortened form of supposititious
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His partner had somehow offended Evelyn, and though she was now disposed to forgive him, the recollection of his suppositious iniquity might afterwards rankle in her mind.

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Furthermore, I have not even told you under what conditions we are able to get the deepest insight into that suppositious "fundamental language," or from which field we gain the most information.

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Every ecclesiastical writer, and every assembly of Bishops, adopted as canonical the writings in which they found their own particular dogmas, the others they treated as apocryphal or suppositious.

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Here is a twofold honour distinguished, the one real, the other suppositious and null, the one renounced, the other owned by Christ, self-honour, and honour which is from God.

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I was the mascot of no clique of friends, nor the pawn of scientists who might find a suppositious and mythical glory in the reflected light of another's achievement.

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