suppositiveadj.n.

Brit.

/səˈpɒzᵻtɪv/, U.S.

/səˈpɑzədɪv/,

/səˈpɑztɪv/

Forms: Middle English suppositif, 1500s– suppositive.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin supposit- , suppōnere , -ive suffix; Latin suppositivus.

Etymology: Originally (in sense A. 1) < classical Latin supposit-, past participial stem of suppōnere suppone v. + -ive suffix. In later use < post-classical Latin suppositivus (of the subjunctive mood) expressing a suggestion (5th or 6th cent. in Priscian; after Hellenistic Greek ὑποθετικός hypothetic adj.), alleged (13th cent. in a British source), hypothetical (14th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin supposit- , past participial stem of suppōnere suppone v. + -īvus -ive suffix. Compare Middle French, French suppositif hypothetical (late 14th cent.), (of a grammatical mood) conditional (1765), Spanish supositivo (15th cent. or earlier), Italian suppositivo (16th cent. or earlier). With use as adjective compare suppositious adj., supposititious adj., and also suppositively adv. With use as noun compare earlier supposite n., suppositum n.

A. adj.

†1. Situated below. Cf. supposite adj. 2a. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > situated or placed under

underlaida1100

subjected?a1425

suppositivec1475

subject?1541

subjacent1598

subterjacent1598

underlying1611

subjunct1639

supposite1640

suppedaneous1646

subordinate1648

subdititious1657

substrated1663

succumbent1664

subtended1670

substrate1678

subadjacent1722

supposed1766

subtending1777

substrative1823

underset1845

infraposed1854

substant1883

underneath1894

underlappingc1900

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 19^v (MED) Bitwene þis boon alauda & þe firste spondile of þe necke þere is a greet schort boon þat he calliþ Os basillaris, þe which haþ an hoole in þe myddil whos hoole is suppositif [L. suppositum] & appositif to þe hoole of þe boon lauda.

2. Deviously or fraudulently substituted; not genuine; = supposititious adj. 1. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [adjective]

falsec1000

Apocrypha1387

counterfeit1393

surmised?1518

apocryph1549

unauthentical1549

suborned1550

apocryphal1590

disauthentic1591

suppositive1598

supposititious1600

surreptitious1615

spurious1624

unauthentic1631

ungenuine1665

ingenuine1675

nothal1716

apocryphical1719

fabricate1755

doctored1853

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 409/1 Suppositiuo, that may be supposed or counterfeite, suppositive.

1876 C. H. Bell John Wheelwright 151 Both Mr. Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, and Mr. Felt, in his Ecclesiastical History, attribute the work to a suppositive son of Wheelwright.

1910 D. Hague in Fundamentals I. vi. 101 They conjecture that these four suppositive documents were not compiled and written by Moses.

3. Hypothetical, conjectural; supposed; = suppositious adj. 3a. Cf. slightly earlier suppositively adv. †suppositive necessity: = hypothetical necessity n. at hypothetical adj. 3 (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

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

suppositive1605

suppositious1642

suppository1642

suppositional1652

supposititious1655

suppositionary1664

the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [adjective] > supposed, surmised

repute1442

supposed1474

surmised1530

suppositive1605

suppositious1642

supposable1645

supposite1655

deemed1667

1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 39 Not out of suppositive coniectures, but out of Alfricus Grammer.

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 407 Not an absolute and positiue, but a conditionall and suppositiue necessity.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 434 Suppositive was the offence of Saint Paul, (onely on their bare surmise) but positive must be his punishment.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 186 It is a suppositive Aphorisme.

1740 T. Morgan Moral Philosopher III. iv. 268 It is true, that I had not taken Notice of a great Part of his suppositive Declamation upon that Head, because I thought it nothing at all to the Purpose.

1827 Mechanics' Mag. 13 Jan. 28/2 Any arguments..of the proposition, must be hypothetical, since the existence of the particles themselves is only suppositive.

1881 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 634 I said we had about one hundred dollars worth. This was a rough guess... We were, however, forced to pay twenty-five per cent. on the suppositive one hundred dollars.

1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) iv. 290 His verdict on a suppositive case of the kind was, ‘If they believe not Moses [etc.].’

1920 H. L. Barber Investing for Profits xiv. 194 The foregoing is a suppositive case, but it is based on numerous cases in fact.

1953 E. R. Wasserman Finer Tone v. 163 At most, his poetry is descriptive and suppositive, not prescriptive.

2008 J. T. Wall Wall St. & Fruited Plain vi. ii. 276 Liberia, having been settled by repatriated American slaves, was under the suppositive protection of the United States.

4. Grammar. Expressing a supposition, conditional.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [adjective] > other specific types of conjunction

conversive1751

suppositive1751

subcontinuative1786

positive1797

arrestive1863

1626 D. Featley Second Parallel 26 This speech is conditionall; suppositiue, and not positiue.

1666 J. Eliot Indian Gram. Begun 19 The Subjunctive, or rather the Supposing, or Suppositive Mode.

1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. ii. 244 As to Continuatives, they are either Suppositive, such as, If; or Positive, such as, Because.

1824 J. Mitchell tr. J. David Gram. Parallel Anc. & Mod. Greek Langs. xli. 116 The Hellenic language..surpasses in this respect all other languages, as in the suppositive proposition it elicits, by the consequence of the same, the existence or non-existence of the subject.

1868 J. J. Hoffmann Japanese Gram. vii. 215 In the deflecting verbs, clearly noticeable is the difference between subjunctive Yukeba and suppositive Yukaba.

1906 S. J. Evans Elem. Welsh Gram. 95 ‘Pe’ introduces a suppositive clause, and implies that supposition is either unreal or very unlikely to become real. It requires the subjunctive mood.

1972 New Eng. Q. 45 412 As if it were necessary to allay any suspicion in our minds that he believed the Negroes had made the same transition from animal to human, [Horace] Bushnell continued in the suppositive mood, writing of the human-like gorillas and chimpanzees: [etc.].

2005 P. Pietrandrea Epistemic Modality ix. 196 That the future is best regarded as a marker of non-factuality..is proved by the fact that [it] is generally employed in hypothetical, suppositive, desiderative and..imperative utterances.

B. n.

Grammar. A word, form, mood, or utterance expressing a supposition; a conditional conjunction.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [noun] > other specific types of conjunction

rationalc1450

subcontinuativea1504

causal1530

conditional1591

perfective1735

positive1751

suppositive1751

vav conversive1828

1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. ii. 244 The Suppositives denote Connection, but assert not actual Existence.

1803 W. O. Pughe Gram. Welsh Lang. iii. iv. 164 The suppositives, o, pe, and pei, precede words with consonant initials.

1881 J. Horden in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics (1961) 27 122/1 The Dubitative (Interrogative) is the subjunctive (Conjunct) of the suppositive (Dubitative), and expresses doubt and uncertainty.

1991 J. E. Botha Jesus & Samaritan Woman iv. 167 The woman..uses the form of a question to express possibility. This suppositive strengthens the perlocution of the previous utterance.

2000 Noûs 34 294 Bach and Harnish (1979, pp. 44-6) discuss a category of speech act they call ‘suppositives’, under which they include the acts of assuming, hypothesizing, postulating, stipulating, supposing, and theorizing, without distinguishing these acts from one another in normative terms or in any other way.

2000 G. L. Campbell Compend. World's Langs. (ed. 2) I. 470 The combination of two bases (perfective and imperfective) with past, present, and future time frames generates a very wide range of verbal forms: e.g. for the past frame, a simple past, a past perfective, a past imperfective, and a past suppositive.

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

单词	suppositive
释义	suppositiveadj.n. Brit. /səˈpɒzᵻtɪv/, U.S. /səˈpɑzədɪv/, /səˈpɑztɪv/ Forms: Middle English suppositif, 1500s– suppositive. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin supposit- , suppōnere , -ive suffix; Latin suppositivus. Etymology: Originally (in sense A. 1) < classical Latin supposit-, past participial stem of suppōnere suppone v. + -ive suffix. In later use < post-classical Latin suppositivus (of the subjunctive mood) expressing a suggestion (5th or 6th cent. in Priscian; after Hellenistic Greek ὑποθετικός hypothetic adj.), alleged (13th cent. in a British source), hypothetical (14th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin supposit- , past participial stem of suppōnere suppone v. + -īvus -ive suffix. Compare Middle French, French suppositif hypothetical (late 14th cent.), (of a grammatical mood) conditional (1765), Spanish supositivo (15th cent. or earlier), Italian suppositivo (16th cent. or earlier). With use as adjective compare suppositious adj., supposititious adj., and also suppositively adv. With use as noun compare earlier supposite n., suppositum n. A. adj. †1. Situated below. Cf. supposite adj. 2a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > situated or placed under underlaida1100 subjected?a1425 suppositivec1475 subject?1541 subjacent1598 subterjacent1598 underlying1611 subjunct1639 supposite1640 suppedaneous1646 subordinate1648 subdititious1657 substrated1663 succumbent1664 subtended1670 substrate1678 subadjacent1722 supposed1766 subtending1777 substrative1823 underset1845 infraposed1854 substant1883 underneath1894 underlappingc1900 c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 19^v (MED) Bitwene þis boon alauda & þe firste spondile of þe necke þere is a greet schort boon þat he calliþ Os basillaris, þe which haþ an hoole in þe myddil whos hoole is suppositif [L. suppositum] & appositif to þe hoole of þe boon lauda. 2. Deviously or fraudulently substituted; not genuine; = supposititious adj. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [adjective] falsec1000 Apocrypha1387 counterfeit1393 surmised?1518 apocryph1549 unauthentical1549 suborned1550 apocryphal1590 disauthentic1591 suppositive1598 supposititious1600 surreptitious1615 spurious1624 unauthentic1631 ungenuine1665 ingenuine1675 nothal1716 apocryphical1719 fabricate1755 doctored1853 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 409/1 Suppositiuo, that may be supposed or counterfeite, suppositive. 1876 C. H. Bell John Wheelwright 151 Both Mr. Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, and Mr. Felt, in his Ecclesiastical History, attribute the work to a suppositive son of Wheelwright. 1910 D. Hague in Fundamentals I. vi. 101 They conjecture that these four suppositive documents were not compiled and written by Moses. 3. Hypothetical, conjectural; supposed; = suppositious adj. 3a. Cf. slightly earlier suppositively adv. †suppositive necessity: = hypothetical necessity n. at hypothetical adj. 3 (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [adjective] suppositive1605 suppositious1642 suppository1642 suppositional1652 supposititious1655 suppositionary1664 the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > [adjective] > supposed, surmised repute1442 supposed1474 surmised1530 suppositive1605 suppositious1642 supposable1645 supposite1655 deemed1667 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 39 Not out of suppositive coniectures, but out of Alfricus Grammer. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 407 Not an absolute and positiue, but a conditionall and suppositiue necessity. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 434 Suppositive was the offence of Saint Paul, (onely on their bare surmise) but positive must be his punishment. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 186 It is a suppositive Aphorisme. 1740 T. Morgan Moral Philosopher III. iv. 268 It is true, that I had not taken Notice of a great Part of his suppositive Declamation upon that Head, because I thought it nothing at all to the Purpose. 1827 Mechanics' Mag. 13 Jan. 28/2 Any arguments..of the proposition, must be hypothetical, since the existence of the particles themselves is only suppositive. 1881 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 634 I said we had about one hundred dollars worth. This was a rough guess... We were, however, forced to pay twenty-five per cent. on the suppositive one hundred dollars. 1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) iv. 290 His verdict on a suppositive case of the kind was, ‘If they believe not Moses [etc.].’ 1920 H. L. Barber Investing for Profits xiv. 194 The foregoing is a suppositive case, but it is based on numerous cases in fact. 1953 E. R. Wasserman Finer Tone v. 163 At most, his poetry is descriptive and suppositive, not prescriptive. 2008 J. T. Wall Wall St. & Fruited Plain vi. ii. 276 Liberia, having been settled by repatriated American slaves, was under the suppositive protection of the United States. 4. Grammar. Expressing a supposition, conditional. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [adjective] > other specific types of conjunction conversive1751 suppositive1751 subcontinuative1786 positive1797 arrestive1863 1626 D. Featley Second Parallel 26 This speech is conditionall; suppositiue, and not positiue. 1666 J. Eliot Indian Gram. Begun 19 The Subjunctive, or rather the Supposing, or Suppositive Mode. 1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. ii. 244 As to Continuatives, they are either Suppositive, such as, If; or Positive, such as, Because. 1824 J. Mitchell tr. J. David Gram. Parallel Anc. & Mod. Greek Langs. xli. 116 The Hellenic language..surpasses in this respect all other languages, as in the suppositive proposition it elicits, by the consequence of the same, the existence or non-existence of the subject. 1868 J. J. Hoffmann Japanese Gram. vii. 215 In the deflecting verbs, clearly noticeable is the difference between subjunctive Yukeba and suppositive Yukaba. 1906 S. J. Evans Elem. Welsh Gram. 95 ‘Pe’ introduces a suppositive clause, and implies that supposition is either unreal or very unlikely to become real. It requires the subjunctive mood. 1972 New Eng. Q. 45 412 As if it were necessary to allay any suspicion in our minds that he believed the Negroes had made the same transition from animal to human, [Horace] Bushnell continued in the suppositive mood, writing of the human-like gorillas and chimpanzees: [etc.]. 2005 P. Pietrandrea Epistemic Modality ix. 196 That the future is best regarded as a marker of non-factuality..is proved by the fact that [it] is generally employed in hypothetical, suppositive, desiderative and..imperative utterances. B. n. Grammar. A word, form, mood, or utterance expressing a supposition; a conditional conjunction. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [noun] > other specific types of conjunction rationalc1450 subcontinuativea1504 causal1530 conditional1591 perfective1735 positive1751 suppositive1751 vav conversive1828 1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. ii. 244 The Suppositives denote Connection, but assert not actual Existence. 1803 W. O. Pughe Gram. Welsh Lang. iii. iv. 164 The suppositives, o, pe, and pei, precede words with consonant initials. 1881 J. Horden in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics (1961) 27 122/1 The Dubitative (Interrogative) is the subjunctive (Conjunct) of the suppositive (Dubitative), and expresses doubt and uncertainty. 1991 J. E. Botha Jesus & Samaritan Woman iv. 167 The woman..uses the form of a question to express possibility. This suppositive strengthens the perlocution of the previous utterance. 2000 Noûs 34 294 Bach and Harnish (1979, pp. 44-6) discuss a category of speech act they call ‘suppositives’, under which they include the acts of assuming, hypothesizing, postulating, stipulating, supposing, and theorizing, without distinguishing these acts from one another in normative terms or in any other way. 2000 G. L. Campbell Compend. World's Langs. (ed. 2) I. 470 The combination of two bases (perfective and imperfective) with past, present, and future time frames generates a very wide range of verbal forms: e.g. for the past frame, a simple past, a past perfective, a past imperfective, and a past suppositive. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1475
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