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(sup-pōz'), v. t. [imp. & p. p. SUPPOSED; p. pr. & vb. n. SUPPOSING.] [Fr. supposer, Pr. supausar, from Lat. sub, under, and pausare, to pause; Pr. supponer, Sp. suponer, Pg. suppôr, It. supporre, Lat. supponere, suppositum, from sub, under, and ponere, to put, to place.] 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 consequence? When we have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to doubt of its existence. Tillotson. 2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true. 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 be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, the existence of things supposes the existence of a cause of the things. One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you say suspected. Female Quixote. 4. To put one thing by fraud in the place of another. [Obs.] Syn.—To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view; regard; conjecture; assume.