suppose

verb

1. 1

   To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.

   I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution.

   I won't be back before midday, I don't suppose.

   I don't suppose you could lend me a euro, could you?

   We're a place setting short, there'll be four of us - always supposing your sis really comes.

2. 2

   To theorize or hypothesize.

   Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.

   Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   Just what is supposed to be wrong with the pursuit of fame is not always made clear. Plato disapproved of competition for praise on the grounds that it would tempt the great to bend to the will of the crowd. It is hard to argue with that, and social degradation remains a fear.

3. 3

   To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

   How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

   Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead.

   As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,[…]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.

4. 4

   obsoleteTo reckon to be, to account or esteem as.

   [He] keeps you from the honors of a Queene, Being ſuppoſde his worthleſſe Concubine.

5. 5

   To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.

   Purpose supposes foresight.

   One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.

6. 6

   obsoleteTo put by fraud in the place of another; to substitute fraudulently.

   A Water-monster, called the Nickard, does enter by night the chamber, where a woman is brought to bed, and stealeth when they are all sleeping, the new-born child and supposeth another in its place, which child growing up is like a monster and commonly dumb.

   ... that they when the queen is in child-birth, be present and warily observe lest the la-dies should privily counterfeit the inheritable sex, by supposing some other male, when the true birth is female,[…]

Forms

past tense

supposed

past participle

supposed

present participle

supposing

third person singular

supposes