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Suppose v. t. (past & past part. supposed; pres. part. supposing)

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? "Suppose they take offence without a cause." "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."

To imagine; to believe; to receive as true. "How easy is a bush supposed a bear!" "Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead."

To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight. "One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected."

To put by fraud in the place of another. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view; regard; conjecture; assume.

Suppose v. i. To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.

noun

Suppose n. Supposition. (Obs.) "A base suppose that he is honest."

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"Suppose" Quotes from Famous Books

... their young, honest faces. The surgeon dressed her, and spoke to her in his own short kind way, pitying her through his eyes, Rab and James outside the circle,—Rab being now reconciled, and even cordial, and having made up his mind that as yet nobody required worrying, but, as you may suppose, semper paratus. ...

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... wish you good luck, for Papa says if you have it it will be your ruin. I did not suppose that circumstances could ruin anybody,—anybody that had any backbone, I mean. But I do wish you good luck all the same, and if you're the kind of person to be ruined by it, ...

— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller

... I suppose he was a tourist, for he had a small knapsack fastened to his back and he was carrying ...

— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges

... of the ground. His chief difficulty would be to leap over the precipice in such a manner as to cause the Indian to believe he had fallen over accidentally. If he could accomplish this, then he felt assured the savages would suppose he had been drowned, and so make no search for him at all. Fortunately the ground favoured this. About five feet below the edge of the precipice there was a projecting ledge of rock nearly four feet broad ...

— Martin Rattler • Robert Michael Ballantyne

... but if we suppose a change in anything, that change must be effected either by the thing itself, or by some ...

— The Republic • Plato

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