supposure

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noun

supposition; conjecture

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Meanings

nounsupposure (plural supposures)

plural supposures

  1. obsoletesupposition; conjecture

    Thy other arguments are all Supposures, hypothetica

    1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC

Origin

From suppose + -ure.

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