suppose

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1. 1.To imagine; to believe; to receive as true. How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead. 2 Sam. xiii.
2. 2.3. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight. One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected. Female Quixote.
3. 3.To put by fraud in the place of another. [Obs.]
4. 4.To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. Acts ii.
5. 5.Supposition. [Obs.] Shak. "A base suppose that he is honest." Dryden.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is suppose.

• What is to put by fraud in the place of another. [Obs.] called?
• What is to make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. Acts ii called?
• What is supposition. [Obs.] Shak. "A base suppose that he is honest." Dryden called?