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 sup·posed /səˈpozd; ||ˈpozəd, ||ˈpost/
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 Sup·pose v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supposed p. pr. & vb. n. Supposing.]
 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.

 supposed
      adj 1: firmly believed; "the way things are supposed to be" [syn: supposed(p)]
      2: mistakenly believed; "the supposed existence of ghosts"
         [syn: supposed(a)]
      3: commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive
         grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed
         (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of
         birth" [syn: putative(a), purported(a), reputed(a),
         supposed(a)]
      4: designed to; "medication that is supposed to relieve pain";
         "what's that gadget supposed to do?" [syn: supposed(a)]
      5: doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
         [syn: alleged(a), so-called]
      6: required or under orders; "I'm supposed to be there at ten";
         "he was supposed to go to the store" [syn: supposed(p)]
      7: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence;
         "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still
         highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his
         absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead
         languages"; "supposititious hypotheses" [syn: conjectural,
          divinatory, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]