Word Meanings - SUPPOSITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Hammond.

Related words: (words related to SUPPOSITIVE)

• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• SUPPOSURE
  Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras.
• SUPPOSABLE
  Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPOSITIVE
  Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Hammond.
• SUPPOSITITIOUS
  1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon. 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly,
• SUPPOSAL
  The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion. Shak. Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom. South.
• SUPPOSEER
  One who supposes.
• SUPPOSITOR
  An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.
• SUPPOSITION
  under, a substitution, fr. supponere, suppositium, to put under, to substitute. The word has the meaning corresponding to suppose. See 1. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• SUPPOSITORY
  A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter. (more info) L. suppositorius that is placed underneath: cf. F. suppositoire. See
• SUPPOSITIONAL
  Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed. South.
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• HYPOTHESIS
  A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis. Syn. -- Supposition; assumption. See Theory. Nebular hypothesis. See under
• SUPPOSE
  corresponding in meaning to L. supponere, suppositum, to put under, 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
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• SIMPLY
  1. In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely. make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other. Hooker. Simply the thing I am Shall make
• PIMPLY
  Pimpled.
• INSUPPOSABLE
  Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable.
• PRESUPPOSE
  To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator. Each presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand. Hooker.
• PRESUPPOSAL
  Presupposition. "Presupposal of knowledge." Hooker.