suppositionaryadj.

1664 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Wks. xliiii. 341 The suppositionary difficulties of the Schools.

1808 J. Webster Elem. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 152 This..knowledge is more vague and suppositionary.

1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 7 July (1964) I. 314 The manner in which you have reproved my suppositionary errors.

1899 H. N. Ogden Sewer Design i. 8 As to the dangers from slime deposited on the walls of large sewers the case is suppositionary, and the evil effects entirely unproved.

1962 Polit. Sci. Q. 77 237 The stage will be worldwide,..and, though the plot of the drama is suppositionary, its outcome will shape history for perhaps centuries to come.

1987 J. S. Baxter Other Side of Death vii. 149 Let Roman Catholic spokesmen give us one single verse of Scripture which tells anything about the ‘poor souls’ in their suppositionary purgatory.