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See also:supposé

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FromMiddle Englishsupposen, borrowed fromOld Frenchsupposer, equivalent to prefixsub-(“under”) +poser(“to place”); corresponding in meaning toLatinsupponere(“to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit”),suppositum. Seepose.

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suppose (third-person singular simple presentsupposes,present participlesupposing,simple past and past participlesupposed)

  1. (transitive) Totake for granted; toconclude, with less than absolute supporting data; tobelieve.
    Isuppose we all agree that this is the best solution.
  2. (transitive) Totheorize orhypothesize.
    Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.[…] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, Isuppose.
    • 2013 September 6,David Cox, “Celebrity rules even Hawking's universe”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number13, page30:
      Just what issupposed to be wrong with the pursuit of fame is not always made clear. Plato disapproved of competition for praise on the grounds that it would tempt the great to bend to the will of the crowd. It is hard to argue with that, and social degradation remains a fear.
  3. (transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) Toreckon to be, toaccount oresteem as.
  5. (transitive) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
    Purposesupposes foresight.
  6. (transitive) To put by fraud in the place of another.
    • 1687, John Aubrey,Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page30:
      A Water-monster, called the Nickard, does enter by night the chamber, where a woman is brought to bed, and stealeth when they are all sleeping, the new-born child andsupposeth another in its place, which child growing up is like a monster and commonly dumb.

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conclude; believe
theorize; hypothesize
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suppose

  1. inflection ofsupposer:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

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suppose

  1. third-personsingular past historic ofsupporre
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