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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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
supposed
adjective
1: firmly believed; "the way things are supposed to be" [syn: {supposed(p)}]
2: mistakenly believed; "the supposed existence of ghosts" [syn: {supposed(a)}]
3: commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of birth" [syn: {putative(a)}, {purported(a)}, {reputed(a)}, {supposed(a)}]
4: designed to; "medication that is supposed to relieve pain"; "what's that gadget supposed to do?" [syn: {supposed(a)}]
5: doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help" [syn: {alleged(a)}, {so-called}]
6: required or under orders; "I'm supposed to be there at ten"; "he was supposed to go to the store" [syn: {supposed(p)}]
7: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "supposititious hypotheses" [syn: {conjectural}, {divinatory}, {suppositional}, {suppositious}, {supposititious}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "supposed": academic, accounted as, alleged, assumed, assumptive, conjectural, conjectured, deemed, expected, given, granted, hinted, hypothetical, imagined, implicated, implied, indicated, inferred, intended, intimated, involved, meant, obliged, ostensible, postulated, postulational, postulatory, premised, presumed, presumptive, presupposed, pretended, professed, provisional, purported, putative, reputed, required, so-called, speculative, suggested, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, taken for granted, tentative, theoretical, understood
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