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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.