SUPPOSITION • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Supposition

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/sˌəpəzˈɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Supposition n.

The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence. "This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is imposible to be false." "He means are in supposition."

See images of 'Supposition'

Etymology of 'Supposition'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Supposition" Quotes from Famous Books

... with their corresponding registrar, and like the two ordinary "alcaldes," elected every year without any other reward than the honor of presiding over and representing their fellow-citizens. Under this supposition, the only classes entitled to compensation, strictly speaking, would be the ecclesiastical chapter and the subaltern officers, whose respective pay and appointment are not in fact sufficient for the decency and expenses of their rank in society. Of course it ...

— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.

... may be accounted for by the supposition that the roadsides in this direction were broad and grass-grown, and used for the market, which was large and important. Indeed, until quite lately, the fairs now carried on in a closed market were held in the open street, the animals being penned up by hurdles. Bordering the green sward houses would ...

— Evesham • Edmund H. New

... the ends of his moustache. It never entered into his head that she was trying to play upon his sympathies. There was some curious quality of simplicity in her manner which forbade that supposition. She interested him as no woman had ever interested him before, and, suddenly, he was filled with a desire to know her past, and, in that, to find excuses for ...

— People of Position • Stanley Portal Hyatt

... entertained the school-children, he had thrown his grounds open to visitors, he had subscribed to charities—in short, his benevolence had been so universal that my driver could only account for it on the supposition that he had ...

— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle

... precisely as we see them now. But so soon as they perceived that the earth is undergoing processes of development and has undergone such processes in the past, it was reasonable, though at first painful, to conclude that on this point they had been mistaken. Yet as we recognise the absurdity of the supposition that, because fruits and trees grow, and were not made in a single instant as we know them, therefore there is no Supreme Being, so may we justly reject as absurd the same argument, enlarged in scale, employed to induce the conclusion that because planets and ...

— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor

More quotes...