supposaln.

Brit.

/səˈpəʊzl/, U.S.

/səˈpoʊzəl/

Forms: late Middle English supposaille, late Middle English supposayle, late Middle English supposaylle, late Middle English supposel, late Middle English–1500s supposaile, late Middle English–1500s supposell, late Middle English– supposal, 1500s supposail, 1500s supposill, 1500s–1600s supposall, 1600s suposal, 1600s supposeall, 1600s suppossal.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French supposaille.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman supposaille, supposail, supposaile mere supposition, (in law) a supposition, something presupposed to be true (both 14th cent.) < supposer suppose v. + -aille , -ail -al suffix¹.

1. The action of supposing something, supposition. Formerly often in on (also †upon) supposal of (also †that). Also parenthetically, †by (also upon) supposal: as may be supposed, supposedly (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [noun]

weeningc900

wenc1000

susposea1325

deeming1340

supposala1425

conjecturec1460

supposing1530

supposition1565

suppose1582

surmise1593

surmisal1641

putation1649

expectation1793

the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [adverb]

by supposinga1393

by (also upon) supposala1425

by supposals1511

suppositively1576

supposedly1597

supposititiously1623

supposably1696

suppositionally1737

suppositiously1829

supposingly1889

suppositorily1961

a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 344 (MED) We mai seie bi supposal, þat we gesse þat it is so; and whoever haþ more evidence, his part shulde sunner be supposid.

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) l. 348 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 498 (MED) For now thes leechys, as by supposayle, Konne of this man noon othir ffevir espye, But that for love was hool his malladye.

1553 Act 1 Mary Sess. 2. c. i. §2 Matters of no strengthe or effecte, but onelye by supposall.

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. ii. 91 Complaint to the Chancellour vpon supposall of losse, or lacke of euidence.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxvi. 42 Praising and commending (by supposall) the good conformities of them both.

1592 in J. Morris Troubles Catholic Forefathers (1877) (modernized text) 3rd Ser. 29 It pleased God..that this journey turned her to the restoring of her health, whereas by supposal his [sc. the magistrate's] sending for her was only of purpose that thereby she might have died.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. vi. §2. 41 Vpon supposall, that There is a God.

1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική xx. 250 The supposall and pretence of his personall Prerogatives.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 684 I have told you that the said Archb. Williams was, upon supposal, buried at Aberconway.

1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 97 God absolves by his Ministers; who cannot see into men's hearts; and therefore can only pronounce, that he absolves them..upon supposal of their unfeigned Repentance.

a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 396 The magistrate seizes all..upon supposal of the party's having cheated the state.

1773 Gentleman's & London Mag. Sept. 544/1 Sir Joseph Jekyl... expended a large sum in building the houses in Chancery-lane, upon supposal he could hold a long lease of them.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. viii. vi. 110 All such relevant articles..as lie within his own custody, power, knowledge, or supposal.

1885 B. Bosanquet Knowl. & Reality i. 40 On the basis of supposal, we judge.

1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 218/2 The abstract name Consequence..may be used in application to all cases in which the truth of one judgment is asserted on supposal of the truth of one or more other judgments.

1973 E. E. Harris Salvation from Despair 93 Falsity, on the other hand, involves assent though its objects are the same as those of supposal, or fictitious ideas.

2004 B. Zelizer in K. R. Phillips Framing Public Memory ii. vii. 163 Depiction in images adds impulses of supposal, hypothesis, and possibility to photographic verisimilitude.

2. Law. A statement, an allegation, as in a writ or indictment. Cf. suppose v. 8. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun]

wrayingc1000

indictment1303

accusationa1382

information1387

appeaching1401

allegeancea1430

supposal1429

accuse?a1439

appealing1440

ditingc1440

indictingc1440

detection1471

cusing1488

indictament1523

arraigning1533

denouncement1544

arraignment1549

raignment1570

delation1578

denunciation1588

prosecution1590

accusement1596

inditure1614

aggravation1626

arraign1638

delating1820

billing1884

beef1928

1429–30 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Sept. 1429 §30. m. 9 That..the partie that seweth have juggement to recovere his dette ayeinst the seide commonaltes, after the supposell of here writtes.

?1530 St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student sig. oiv^v Wherupon foloweth a false supposell in the wrytte, and a false supposell in the declaracyon.

1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 14 An attainder..shal haue relation to the time of the felony done, according to the supposall of the inditement.

1651 tr. J. Kitchin Courts Leet (1653) 477 He need not take traverse that it is not frank fee, for that, that the Writ is but a Supposall.

1706 R. Gardiner Doctr. of Demurrers 86 The Writ supposes that they are not a Corporation, and 'tis to falsify the supposal of the Writ, to name them as a Corporation.

1857 Maryland Rep. 10 451 If it [sc. the return] denies their supposal of the writ, the traverse must be single, direct and certain.

1889 Rep. Supreme Court Missouri 96 15 If the respondent elects to traverse the supposals of the alternative writ he must deny them positively and distinctly.

1916 Harvard Law Rev. 29 386 If replevin had not at least assumed property in the plaintiff at the time of the action brought, there would not have been that ‘contrairiositie’ in the supposal of the writs of replevin and trespass emphasized in the Year Books.

3. Something supposed; a supposition, a hypothesis, a conjecture; an assumption. Also: an act or instance of supposing something. †by supposals: as may be supposed, supposedly (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [adverb]

by supposinga1393

by (also upon) supposala1425

by supposals1511

suppositively1576

supposedly1597

supposititiously1623

supposably1696

suppositionally1737

suppositiously1829

supposingly1889

suppositorily1961

the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [noun] > instance

suspicionc1460

supposal1511

supposition1565

suppose1573

surmise1590

supposure1613

1511 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 325 There have bene greate variannce now of late..and by supposails in likwise to be in tyme commynge.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. cccliii I am comforted be my supposaile in blysse, & in ioye to determyne after my desyres.

1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 239 From this supposall these three conclusions are drawen.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence i. 12 As touching there names, of Germans and Almans sundry supposals haue bin made.

1645 J. Goodwin Innocency & Truth Triumphing 68 This is but petitio Principii, a supposall of that which is the main Question.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 162 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Upon a false supposal, that between Indus and Ganges there were thirty degrees, whereas there are scarce ten.

a1692 ( in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 459 This supposaille it ne is not greetly to be feered.

1710 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. June (1965) I. 41 I am..in hopes we shall return..the latter end of the year; but all that is supposals, and I have no ground to believe it.

1730 H. Fielding Rape upon Rape iii. xi. 43 Mrs. Squeez..I cannot say but I have a generous Pity for any one whom I imagine to be accused wrongfully. Ramble. I am obliged to you indeed, Madam, for that Supposal.

1782 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 18/2 The last distich but one..proves Peck's notion..no more entitled to rational credibility, than the supposal of a misunderstanding between Milton and King on the score of a fellowship.

1847 J. Francis Hist. Bank Eng. (ed. 2) II. App. 256 The honour and justice of the whole nation..is too much concerned, to admit a supposal that any such designs should receive countenance or encouragement.

1891 H. Caine Scapegoat II. ii. 25 The Kaid..according to their supposals, had called on him to correct what he had done amiss.

1920 S. Alexander Space, Time & Deity II. viii. 223 Supposals may be either veridical or not.

a1963 C. S. Lewis Discarded Image (1964) ii. 15 Your astronomical theory will be a supposal such that, if it were true, the apparent motions from the point or points of observation would be those you have actually observed.

2006 D. K. Shuger Censorship & Cultural Sensibility vii. 216 They almost certainly gave legitimacy to his inclusion of such sinister rumors, inferences, and supposals, allowing such material to be perceived as the sort of truth it was the task of the historian to reveal.

4. A notion, an opinion. Now rare.Quot. 1998 echoes 1604.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > [noun] > a view, notion, opinion

thingOE

thoughtc1300

opinion1340

device1393

holdingc1449

opinationc1475

sense1539

apprehension1579

suppose1587

supposal1589

conception1603

notion1603

opining1611

tenet1631

respect1662

sentiment1675

perception1701

1589 A. Fleming in tr. Virgil Eclogs x. Argt. 29 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks If we may beleeve the supposall of Servius.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 18 Holding a weake supposall of our worth Or thinking..Our state to be disioynt, and out of frame.

1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke ii. i. 76 Methodians..arrogated this name vnto themselues in the best sence, as onely in their owne supposall meriting the title of true Art and Method.

1737 London Mag. June 322/1 His supposal was, that nothing could be more likely to make a Man hang himself than Matrimony.

1998 T. Brennan in J. Sihvola & T. Engberg-Pedersen Emotions in Hellenistic Philos. 66 (note) But ‘weak supposal’ [tr. Byzantine Greek ἀσθενοῦς ὑπολήψεως] must mean ‘supposal, i.e. opinion, in which the assent is weak’, since weakness is directly a feature only of assent.

†5. A suggestion, a proposal. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > [noun] > instance of

suggestion1382

supposal1715

suggesting1867

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 27 A Syncronical half-sheet, stil'd, The Proposal,..the primitive Title is much plainer, thus, The Supposal: Or, A New Scheme of Government.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxii. 148 I suppose it is the way of this sex to endeavour to intangle the thoughtless of ours by bold supposals and offers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	supposal
释义	supposaln. Brit. /səˈpəʊzl/, U.S. /səˈpoʊzəl/ Forms: late Middle English supposaille, late Middle English supposayle, late Middle English supposaylle, late Middle English supposel, late Middle English–1500s supposaile, late Middle English–1500s supposell, late Middle English– supposal, 1500s supposail, 1500s supposill, 1500s–1600s supposall, 1600s suposal, 1600s supposeall, 1600s suppossal. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French supposaille. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman supposaille, supposail, supposaile mere supposition, (in law) a supposition, something presupposed to be true (both 14th cent.) < supposer suppose v. + -aille , -ail -al suffix¹. 1. The action of supposing something, supposition. Formerly often in on (also †upon) supposal of (also †that). Also parenthetically, †by (also upon) supposal: as may be supposed, supposedly (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [noun] weeningc900 wenc1000 susposea1325 deeming1340 supposala1425 conjecturec1460 supposing1530 supposition1565 suppose1582 surmise1593 surmisal1641 putation1649 expectation1793 the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [adverb] by supposinga1393 by (also upon) supposala1425 by supposals1511 suppositively1576 supposedly1597 supposititiously1623 supposably1696 suppositionally1737 suppositiously1829 supposingly1889 suppositorily1961 a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 344 (MED) We mai seie bi supposal, þat we gesse þat it is so; and whoever haþ more evidence, his part shulde sunner be supposid. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) l. 348 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 498 (MED) For now thes leechys, as by supposayle, Konne of this man noon othir ffevir espye, But that for love was hool his malladye. 1553 Act 1 Mary Sess. 2. c. i. §2 Matters of no strengthe or effecte, but onelye by supposall. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. ii. 91 Complaint to the Chancellour vpon supposall of losse, or lacke of euidence. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxvi. 42 Praising and commending (by supposall) the good conformities of them both. 1592 in J. Morris Troubles Catholic Forefathers (1877) (modernized text) 3rd Ser. 29 It pleased God..that this journey turned her to the restoring of her health, whereas by supposal his [sc. the magistrate's] sending for her was only of purpose that thereby she might have died. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. vi. §2. 41 Vpon supposall, that There is a God. 1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική xx. 250 The supposall and pretence of his personall Prerogatives. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 684 I have told you that the said Archb. Williams was, upon supposal, buried at Aberconway. 1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 97 God absolves by his Ministers; who cannot see into men's hearts; and therefore can only pronounce, that he absolves them..upon supposal of their unfeigned Repentance. a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 396 The magistrate seizes all..upon supposal of the party's having cheated the state. 1773 Gentleman's & London Mag. Sept. 544/1 Sir Joseph Jekyl... expended a large sum in building the houses in Chancery-lane, upon supposal he could hold a long lease of them. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. viii. vi. 110 All such relevant articles..as lie within his own custody, power, knowledge, or supposal. 1885 B. Bosanquet Knowl. & Reality i. 40 On the basis of supposal, we judge. 1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 218/2 The abstract name Consequence..may be used in application to all cases in which the truth of one judgment is asserted on supposal of the truth of one or more other judgments. 1973 E. E. Harris Salvation from Despair 93 Falsity, on the other hand, involves assent though its objects are the same as those of supposal, or fictitious ideas. 2004 B. Zelizer in K. R. Phillips Framing Public Memory ii. vii. 163 Depiction in images adds impulses of supposal, hypothesis, and possibility to photographic verisimilitude. 2. Law. A statement, an allegation, as in a writ or indictment. Cf. suppose v. 8. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] wrayingc1000 indictment1303 accusationa1382 information1387 appeaching1401 allegeancea1430 supposal1429 accuse?a1439 appealing1440 ditingc1440 indictingc1440 detection1471 cusing1488 indictament1523 arraigning1533 denouncement1544 arraignment1549 raignment1570 delation1578 denunciation1588 prosecution1590 accusement1596 inditure1614 aggravation1626 arraign1638 delating1820 billing1884 beef1928 1429–30 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Sept. 1429 §30. m. 9 That..the partie that seweth have juggement to recovere his dette ayeinst the seide commonaltes, after the supposell of here writtes. ?1530 St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student sig. oiv^v Wherupon foloweth a false supposell in the wrytte, and a false supposell in the declaracyon. 1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 14 An attainder..shal haue relation to the time of the felony done, according to the supposall of the inditement. 1651 tr. J. Kitchin Courts Leet (1653) 477 He need not take traverse that it is not frank fee, for that, that the Writ is but a Supposall. 1706 R. Gardiner Doctr. of Demurrers 86 The Writ supposes that they are not a Corporation, and 'tis to falsify the supposal of the Writ, to name them as a Corporation. 1857 Maryland Rep. 10 451 If it [sc. the return] denies their supposal of the writ, the traverse must be single, direct and certain. 1889 Rep. Supreme Court Missouri 96 15 If the respondent elects to traverse the supposals of the alternative writ he must deny them positively and distinctly. 1916 Harvard Law Rev. 29 386 If replevin had not at least assumed property in the plaintiff at the time of the action brought, there would not have been that ‘contrairiositie’ in the supposal of the writs of replevin and trespass emphasized in the Year Books. 3. Something supposed; a supposition, a hypothesis, a conjecture; an assumption. Also: an act or instance of supposing something. †by supposals: as may be supposed, supposedly (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [adverb] by supposinga1393 by (also upon) supposala1425 by supposals1511 suppositively1576 supposedly1597 supposititiously1623 supposably1696 suppositionally1737 suppositiously1829 supposingly1889 suppositorily1961 the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [noun] > instance suspicionc1460 supposal1511 supposition1565 suppose1573 surmise1590 supposure1613 1511 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 325 There have bene greate variannce now of late..and by supposails in likwise to be in tyme commynge. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. cccliii I am comforted be my supposaile in blysse, & in ioye to determyne after my desyres. 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 239 From this supposall these three conclusions are drawen. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence i. 12 As touching there names, of Germans and Almans sundry supposals haue bin made. 1645 J. Goodwin Innocency & Truth Triumphing 68 This is but petitio Principii, a supposall of that which is the main Question. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 162 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Upon a false supposal, that between Indus and Ganges there were thirty degrees, whereas there are scarce ten. a1692 ( in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 459 This supposaille it ne is not greetly to be feered. 1710 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. June (1965) I. 41 I am..in hopes we shall return..the latter end of the year; but all that is supposals, and I have no ground to believe it. 1730 H. Fielding Rape upon Rape iii. xi. 43 Mrs. Squeez..I cannot say but I have a generous Pity for any one whom I imagine to be accused wrongfully. Ramble. I am obliged to you indeed, Madam, for that Supposal. 1782 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 18/2 The last distich but one..proves Peck's notion..no more entitled to rational credibility, than the supposal of a misunderstanding between Milton and King on the score of a fellowship. 1847 J. Francis Hist. Bank Eng. (ed. 2) II. App. 256 The honour and justice of the whole nation..is too much concerned, to admit a supposal that any such designs should receive countenance or encouragement. 1891 H. Caine Scapegoat II. ii. 25 The Kaid..according to their supposals, had called on him to correct what he had done amiss. 1920 S. Alexander Space, Time & Deity II. viii. 223 Supposals may be either veridical or not. a1963 C. S. Lewis Discarded Image (1964) ii. 15 Your astronomical theory will be a supposal such that, if it were true, the apparent motions from the point or points of observation would be those you have actually observed. 2006 D. K. Shuger Censorship & Cultural Sensibility vii. 216 They almost certainly gave legitimacy to his inclusion of such sinister rumors, inferences, and supposals, allowing such material to be perceived as the sort of truth it was the task of the historian to reveal. 4. A notion, an opinion. Now rare.Quot. 1998 echoes 1604. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > [noun] > a view, notion, opinion thingOE thoughtc1300 opinion1340 device1393 holdingc1449 opinationc1475 sense1539 apprehension1579 suppose1587 supposal1589 conception1603 notion1603 opining1611 tenet1631 respect1662 sentiment1675 perception1701 1589 A. Fleming in tr. Virgil Eclogs x. Argt. 29 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks If we may beleeve the supposall of Servius. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 18 Holding a weake supposall of our worth Or thinking..Our state to be disioynt, and out of frame. View more context for this quotation 1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke ii. i. 76 Methodians..arrogated this name vnto themselues in the best sence, as onely in their owne supposall meriting the title of true Art and Method. 1737 London Mag. June 322/1 His supposal was, that nothing could be more likely to make a Man hang himself than Matrimony. 1998 T. Brennan in J. Sihvola & T. Engberg-Pedersen Emotions in Hellenistic Philos. 66 (note) But ‘weak supposal’ [tr. Byzantine Greek ἀσθενοῦς ὑπολήψεως] must mean ‘supposal, i.e. opinion, in which the assent is weak’, since weakness is directly a feature only of assent. †5. A suggestion, a proposal. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > [noun] > instance of suggestion1382 supposal1715 suggesting1867 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 27 A Syncronical half-sheet, stil'd, The Proposal,..the primitive Title is much plainer, thus, The Supposal: Or, A New Scheme of Government. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxii. 148 I suppose it is the way of this sex to endeavour to intangle the thoughtless of ours by bold supposals and offers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425
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