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.