Syn. — To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view; regard; conjecture; assume.
SUPPOSE
Sup*pose", v. i.
Defn: To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. Acts ii. 15.
SUPPOSE
Sup*pose", n.
Defn: Supposition. [Obs.] Shak. "A base suppose that he is honest."
Dryden.
SUPPOSEER
Sup*pose"er, n.
Defn: One who supposes.
SUPPOSITION Sup`po*si"tion, n. Etym: [F. supposition, L. suppositio a placing under, a substitution, fr. supponere, suppositium, to put under, to substitute. The word has the meaning corresponding to suppose. See Sub-, and Position.]
1. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
2. That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence. This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is imposible to be false. Tillotson. He means are in supposition. Shak.