Definition of Suppositional

1. Adjective. Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence. "Hypothetical situation"


Definition of Suppositional

1. a. Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.

Definition of Suppositional

1. Adjective. Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural. ¹

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Definition of Suppositional

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppositional

supposals
suppose
supposed
supposed(a)
supposed(p)
supposed to
supposedly
supposer
supposers
supposes
supposest
supposeth
supposing
supposition
supposition theory
suppositional (current term)
suppositionally
suppositions
suppositious
suppositiously
suppositiousness
supposititious
suppositor
suppositories
suppositors
suppositum
supposively
supposta
supposure

Literary usage of Suppositional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physics and philosophy of the senses, or, The mental and the physical in by Robert Stodart Wyld (1875)
"RADIATION OF LIGHT—DECREASE OF INTENSITY—APPARENT BRIGHTNESS— suppositional MODES OF VISION. 95. LIGHT, whether it be an emanation of particles, ..."

2. Christian Science Against Itself by Miram W Gifford (1902)
"Nor is it enough to say that these are suppositional facts. ... If a thing is only suppositional, it is not a fact; and if a fact, it is not suppositional, ..."

3. Life Understood from a Scientific and Religious Point of View: And the by Frederick Lawrence Rawson (1920)
"23 32 83 4 19 12 21 21 218 34 23 20 2,1 17 U4 THIS suppositional OPPOSITE WORLD A DREAM. Sec. 2. In the British Museum are some writings in Latin recording ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"suppositional. Whether (in any art or science whatsoever) a bare Hypothesis, or sole suppository argument, may not be gratis, and with the same facility and ..."

5. The Problem of the Pentateuch: A New Solution by Archaeological Methods by Melvin Grove Kyle (1920)
"Moreover, this it does without calling in the aid of any suppositional elements, as unknown authors and un- mentioned documents. ..."

6. Flowers and Their Friends by Margaret Warner Morley (1897)
"L. primus, first; a name given in this book to a suppositional plant. Probing, n. L. probare, to test, examine ; examining by means of a long, ..."

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