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supposed, ppl. a.|səˈpəʊzd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Believed or thought to exist, or to be what the n. denotes, but uncertainly or erroneously.
1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. i. 2 b, This supposed Presbiter Ioan. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 455 The sight which makes supposed terror trew. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. vii. 15. (1655) 188 When a supposed able man..faileth in his estate. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xxviii. 401 Hezekiah, upon his supposed death-bed. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxiii. §2 The supposed, but unknown, support of those qualities we find existing. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxix. (1787) III. 111 Arcadius was easily persuaded to resent the supposed insult. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxxv, Say, that in a moment of infatuation, moved by supposed beauty,..I gave my hand to this Amy Robsart. 1859Mill Liberty i. 12 Those..classes..to whose real or supposed interests democracy is adverse. 1905R. Bagot Passport vii. 66 The wines were execrable..and the man who poured them out told us their supposed dates.
absol.1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. iv. 97 You must lay downe the treasures of your body, To this suppos'd.
†b. Believed (with assurance), admitted. Obs.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §21 Curiosities..discussed by men of most supposed ability.
†2. ‘Put on’, feigned, pretended, counterfeit. Obs.
1566Painter Pal. Pleas. i. xxiii. 44 b, It is no pure and naturall affection, but rather a suposed and Ciuile loue. 1592Greene Conny Catch. iii. 38 He cuts the ring from the purse, and by his supposed man (rounding him in the eare) sends it to the plot-layer of this knauerie. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. iv. 61 Let the supposed Fairies pinch him. a1641Mountagu Acts & Mon. i. (1642) 11 The onely true God,..no supposed, false, subintroducted God or Gods. 1664Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery ii. i. §3 The traditions..were..Apocryphal, forg'd, and suppos'd.
†b. Supposititious. Obs.
1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox i. 11 Not well pleased to see that a supposed child should reap, before the season, that which she..desired to preserve in their owne family. 1787C. Smith Romance Real Life I. 175 To name a guardian for the supposed child.
†3. Assumed as a premiss: in quot. absol.
1697tr. Burgersdicius' Logic ii. vi. 20 A Syllogism is a Speech in which something being suppos'd, something different from that suppos'd, by Reason of the Suppos'd, does of Necessity follow.
†4. Placed beneath; underlying. Obs. rare—1.
1608Topsell Serpents 114 The Chamælion..doth not change his owne colour into a supposed colour, but when it is oppressed with feare or griefe.
†5. Mus. Applied to a note added or introduced below the notes of a chord, or to an upper note of a chord when used as the lowest note (supposed bass) instead of the fundamental bass or ‘root’, i.e. to the lowest note of an ‘inversion’ of the chord; hence applied to the harmony of an ‘inversion’. Also applied to a ‘discord’ introduced as a passing-note. (Cf. supposition 5.) Obs.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 83/2 s.v. Supposition, Concords by supposition are those where the continued bass adds or supposes a new sound below the fundamental bass... Of these..there are three sorts,..the first, when the added sound is a third below... The second..when the supposed sound is a fifth below... The third..where the supposed sound is below a concord of the diminished seventh. 1845Encycl. Metrop. V. 734 Every bass note which has a sixth upon it is a supposed bass. Ibid. 735 The supposed harmony of the third of the key is..borrowed from the fundamental harmony of the key note. Ibid. 755 The supposed discord is on the second accented part of the bar. |