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proposed, ppl. a.|prəʊˈpəʊzd| [f. propose v. + -ed1.] Put forward for consideration or adoption; ‘given’ or stated (in the premisses); intended, etc.: see the verb.
c1430Art Nombryng 8 Multiplicacioun of nombre by hym-self other by a nother, with proposide .2. nombres, [is] the fyndyng of the thirde. 1635Swan Spec. M. ii. (1643) 29 There should be a proposed point or mark. 1780Newgate Cal. V. 8 Her mother..was a warm friend to the proposed marriage. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 715 The proposed law, they said, was a retrospective penal law, and therefore objectionable. Hence proˈposedly adv. rare, intendedly, purposely.
1777Sterne's Tr. Shandy I. xix, They had proposedly [edd. 1–4 purposedly, ed. 5– purposely] been plann'd and pointed against him. |