supposablyadv.

1696 S. Hill Deb. Justice & Piety Present Constit. i. sig. F3^v 'Tis not supposably legal, that all the Tenants in the Mannor can by Legal Forms of Judgment dispossess a Lawful, and possess a wrong Person into the Lordship of a Mannor.

1739 Bp. J. Butler Serm. before Soc. Propagation of Gospel 20 The great Superstition of which this Nation..has Reason to be afraid, is imminent; and the Ways in which we may, very supposeably, be overwhelmed by it, obvious.

1795 C. Este Journey in Year 1793 61 The council of Brabant..by arbitrary alterations..may be very supposeably impaired in its purity and power.

1813 Lett. & Papers Agric. (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) XIII. ii. xvii. 297 Two horses generally for working a plough would as certainly be sufficient as that four supposably are now retained for the purpose.

1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. ix. 220 The only justifiable, or supposeably proper, occasion for taking this business out of the hand of the parent,..is, [etc.].

1881 J. Ruskin Love's Meinie I. iii. 134 This aesthetic water~hen..lived at Cheadle,..in the rectory moat,..‘always how~ever leaving it in the spring,’ (for Scotland, supposably?).

1893 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson ii, in Cent. Mag. Dec. 236/2 Sitting on a wheelbarrow..at work, supposably, whereas he was in fact only..taking an hour's rest.

1910 M. W. Calkins Persistent Probl. Philos. (ed. 2) App. 418 Every one of the supposably discrete, distinct ‘units’ is both comparable with and dependent on other units.

1985 Oecologia 67 38/1 Males and sub-adults would supposeably demonstrate a diurnal activity pattern similar to the females if they were not influenced by the river lamprey activity pattern.

1995 S. Grafton L is for Lawless iii. 34 ‘Did they call the police?’ ‘Uhn-hun, and they're on their way. Supposably,’ she added with disdain.