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Definition of Supposable
1. Adjective. Capable of being inferred on slight grounds.
Definition of Supposable
1. a. Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case.
Definition of Supposable
1. Adjective. Capable of being supposed; imaginable. ¹
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Definition of Supposable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supposable
Literary usage of Supposable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Not Paul, But Jesus by Jeremy Bentham (1823)
"supposable Miracle V. — At Corinth, Paul comforted by the Lord in ... supposable
Miracle VI. — At Ephesus, Diseases and Devils expelled by foul ..."
2. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"No examination therefore will be here attempted of any such supposable cases.
§ 324. ... supposable ..."
3. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"No examination thert fore will be here attempted of any such supposable cases.
§ 324. ... supposable ..."
4. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"... and in all supposable cases, the inquiry of the moral philosopher must be,
not whether there be a relation, but what the relation is; whether it be that ..."
5. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1904)
"A contrary practice might lead to great injustice, in [ *184 ] several supposable
cases. In a case like this, *a man is not to be bound by the arguments of ..."
6. Debates and Proceedings of the Maryland Reform Convention to Revise the by Maryland Constitutional Convention, Maryland (1851)
"... (which of of course is not supposable,) still, I regard the value of the
principie, now established 10 griot in view of the possible future, ..."
7. An Examination of President Edwards's Inquiry on the Freedom of the Will by Jeremiah Day (1841)
"Common necessity—It implies supposable opposition of will—General and particular
necessity—Philosophical necessity—Necessary existence—Different grounds of ..."
8. Zarathuštra, Philo, the Achaemenids and Israel: Being a Treatise Upon the by Lawrence Heyworth Mills (1906)
"... supposable. And here indeed we have a consideration which is well calculated
to unnerve our most resolute defence, as well as to make the most ardent ..."
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