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Definition of Supposes
1. suppose [v] - See also: suppose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supposes
Literary usage of Supposes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"... called supposes; the very name whereof may, peradventure, drive into every of
your heads a sundry suppose, to suppose the meaning of our supposes,' &c. ..."
2. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"... called supposes; the very name whereof may, peradventure, drive into every of
your heads a sundry suppose, to suppose the meaning of our supposes,' &c. ..."
3. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"... which supposes an objective i/' GENERAL INTRODUCTION. compatibility with the
desired reduction may disappear. The great obstacle to such assimilation ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... nary supposes the curve of a perfectly flexible, inextensible and infinitely
fine cord of infinitesimal weight hanging at rest between two points of ..."
5. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1823)
"9^p- supposes, on the part of the people, some preju- J'~~v—' dice or other,
which it is the business of the legis- posts ii pre- o judice which ..."
6. The Lancet (1842)
"Tbe other three classes he supposes to have existed from time immemorial, and to
be curable without the aid of mercury. But as I shall have frequently to ..."
7. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"39) detecta the presence of a third author, and Mr. Fleay supposes that this
third author was Nathaniel Field ..."
8. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Even the two on John the Baptist and Annunciation Day, which Migne claims for
him, are doubtful; the first supposes a fully developed veneration of the ..."
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