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1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. i. sig. A.iv^v/1 Moses..was borne..of those fathers, whome God had appointed to be witnesses of his will,..suppose Amram, Kahad, Jacob, Sem, Methusalem, and Adam.

1658 S. Hudson Vindic. Esence & Unity Church-Catholick Visible (ed. 2) i. 7 Now draw a word (as suppose head) from its natural and proper signification to a civil use, and head will signifie a King.

1720 J. Raphson & S. Cunn tr. I. Newton Universal Arithmetick 83 The best way is to seek other Quantities that are not ambiguous, by which these may be determin'd, as suppose their Sum, or Difference, or Rectangle.

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. D^v When they have done Measuring, they account the whole to be so many Bouts, as suppose 24 Bouts and one half, that's Sixty-four Loads.

1800 W. Scott Let. 22 Apr. (1932) I. 97 To treat with the proprietors of some established paper—suppose the Caledonian Mercury.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics iv. 38 M N is a dense medium (suppose glass).

1666 J. Wallis Let. 25 Apr. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 144 There are these three notorious Observations made of the Reciprocation of Tides. First the Diurnal Reciprocation... Secondly, the Menstrual; whereby in one Synodical period of the Moon, suppose from Full-moon to Full-moon.

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxvii. 149 The Pericardium is likewise summon'd by Petr. Salius..for an apparent cause of a tabes or Marcour, if anywise affected, as suppose inflammed, or pustulated.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 12 That we are to exist hereafter in a State as different suppose from our present [etc.].

1747 J. Smith Mem. Wool I. l. 235 But whenever the Price of English Wool in England, by taking off the Prohibition..should raise the Market at Home, as, suppose, to 9 d. instead of 6 d. the Case would be greatly altered.

1762 H. Home Elem. Crit. (ed. 3) I. v. 240 It has been explained why smoke ascending in a calm day, suppose from a cottage in a wood, is an agreeable object.

1807 C. Hutton Course Math. II. 7 In the Third Method, Or Instrumentally, as suppose by the log. lines on one side of the common two-foot scales.

1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art 241 But if the Government issued so many spotted stones that it was impossible for the body of men they employed to comply with the orders; as, suppose, if they only employed twelve men, [etc.]