supposern.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Supposer, opinator.

1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries 10 Some good supposer may say, that riches serve for a pleasant and recreative life.

1657 W. Charleton Immortality Human Soul ii. 132 What the first supposers thereof have told us..is altogether fabulous and unreasonable.

1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber ii. i. ii. iv. 50 Every one of these Supposers is adverse to the other according to his Supposition.

1711 B. Mandeville Treat. Hypochondriack & Hysterick Passions ii. 105 He becomes acquainted with all the faults, which the latter Supposers still have found with their Predecessors.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxvi. 166 You never knew so bold a supposer.

1814 Morning Post 1 July 3/2 The happy ‘prognosticators of prophecies’ have now, with equal felicity, become the supposers of suppositions.

1851 H. Crosby Lands of Moslem 141 This pass is supposed by some to be the Scripture Migdol, and by such supposers is styled Muktula, but the Arabs did not know any other name for the spot but Muntula.

1909 ‘M. Twain’ Is Shakespeare Dead? ii. 24 The Supposers, the Perhapsers, the Might-Have-Beeners, the Could-Have-Beeners..and all..who have taken a good solid foundation of five indisputable and unimportant facts and built upon it a Conjectural Satan thirty miles high.

2002 K. S. Santilli Poetic Gesture iii. 70 Any semblance of reality will do... The imagined becomes pure invention, and the emphasis moves from what is supposed to the supposer himself.