suppositionaladj.

1652 W. Charleton Darknes Atheism x. 335 This Suppositional Necessity, and Peters Liberty are not..Discordant, or Inconsistent, in any respect.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xxi. §5. 130 Having gotten an example (erroneous and supposi [ti] onall) [L. putaticio] they straightway slide to a generality.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 95 We have the sensible eviction of our own eyes to confute this Suppositional Vacuity.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) IX. 327 Men and angels..have also a certain knowledge of them; but it is not absolute, but only suppositional; that is, upon supposal that such and such things continue in their being.

1783 Apol. & Vindic. iii. i. 46 And for his suppositional argument drawn from sanctifying the water in baptism, it makes it not a whit the better.

1847 J. J. Griffin Chem. Recreations (ed. 9) 467 Its [sc. ammonium's] existence is suppositional, for it has never been produced in a separate state.

1865 J. B. Mozley 8 Lect. Miracles vii. 152 To say that all this change would have gone on without doctrine, is..suppositional only.

1901 H. W. Holden Guidance for Men 140 The case is not altogether a suppositional one; it is found in fact.

1945 Pop. Mech. Sept. 28/1 Consider a suppositional flight by a globe-girdling plane such as the cargo version of the B-29.

1999 P. R. Jones Studying Parables Jesus iii. xii. 246 This view is suppositional and cannot be proven.

1737 W. Jackling Paschal Solemnity Rectified iv. 66 When such corresponding Full Moon suppositionally returns on the same Day of the Month.

1828 Sir G. de Lacy Evans On Designs of Russia 124 Granting then, suppositionally, that this anticipated event may have already taken place, [etc.].

1991 J. B. Freeman Dialectics & Macrostructure of Arguments vii. 230 (note) Cannot we then say that she is committed, albeit suppositionally, to P for at least part of the course of the argument?