Suppose

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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?
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Suppose they take offence without a cause. --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              How easy is a bush supposed a bear!   --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of
        thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              One falsehood always supposes another, and renders
              all you can say suspected.            --Female
                                                    Quixote.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. To put by fraud in the place of another. [Obs.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view;
          regard; conjecture; assume.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suppose \Sup*pose"\, v. i.
     To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. --Acts ii.
     15.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suppose \Sup*pose"\, n.
     Supposition. [Obs.] --Shak. "A base suppose that he is
     honest." --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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},
           {hypothesise}, {hypothecate}]
       4: take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I
          presuppose that you have done your work" [syn: {presuppose}]
       5: require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This
          step presupposes two prior ones" [syn: {presuppose}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "suppose":
     account, account as, adjudge, adjudicate, allegorize, allow,
     allude to, assume, be afraid, be judicious, believe, bring to mind,
     coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, conclude, concoct,
     conjecture, connote, consider, count, create, daresay, deduce,
     deem, divine, dream, dream up, entail, esteem, estimate,
     exercise judgment, expect, experience imaginatively,
     express an opinion, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, feel,
     fictionalize, form an opinion, gather, grant, guess, hatch,
     have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling,
     have the idea, hint, hold, hold as, hypothesize, ideate, imagine,
     implicate, imply, import, infer, insinuate, intimate, invent,
     involve, judge, let, let be, look upon as, maintain, mean,
     mean to say, mold, opine, originate, perhaps, pine,
     point indirectly to, posit, postulate, prefigure, presume,
     presuppose, presurmise, pretend, produce, provisionally accept,
     reckon, regard, repute, say, set down as, shape, speculation,
     suggest, supposition, surmise, suspect, take, take for,
     take for granted, take it, take to be, theorize, think,
     think likely, think of, think up, trow, understand, venture to say,
     view as, ween