supposure
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
supposure (plural supposures)
- (obsolete) supposition; conjecture
- 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
- Thy other arguments are all Supposures, hypothetica
References[edit]
“supposure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.