From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Suppose \Sup*pose"\, verb (used with an object) [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?
Suppose they take offence without a cause. --Shak.
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.
2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
How easy is a bush supposed a bear! --Shak.
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.
3. 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. --Female Quixote.
4. To put by fraud in the place of another. [Obs.]
Syn: To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view; regard; conjecture; assume.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Suppose \Sup*pose"\, verb (used without an object) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. --Acts ii. 15.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Suppose \Sup*pose"\, noun Supposition. [Obs.] --Shak. ''A base suppose that he is honest.'' --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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