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suffiction|sʌˈfɪkʃən|
[f. suf- = sub- + fiction n., after supposition.]
A fiction taken as a hypothesis.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. v, In the majority of instances these hypotheses or suppositions better deserve the name of ὑποποιήσεις, or suffictions. Ibid. xii, Arbitrary suppositions, or rather suffictions. 1833― Table-t. (1835) II. 197 It seems to me a great delusion to call or suppose the imagination of a subtle fluid, or molecules penetrable with the same, a legitimate hypothesis. It is a mere suffiction. |