Hypertext Webster Gateway: "suppose"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Suppose \Sup*pose"\, v. t. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Suppose \Sup*pose"\, v. i.
To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. --Acts ii.
15.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Suppose \Sup*pose"\, n.
Supposition. [Obs.] --Shak. ``A base suppose that he is
honest.'' --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
suppose
v 1: express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the
truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would
you do?" [syn: {say}]
2: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of
money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad
state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I
guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: {think},
{opine}, {imagine}, {reckon}, {guess}]
3: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds:
"Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in
swamps." [syn: {speculate}, {theorize}, {theorise}, {conjecture},
{hypothesize}, {hypothecate}]
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