Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 198

Suppose (v. t.) To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?

Suppose (v. t.) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

Suppose (v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.

Suppose (v. t.) To put by fraud in the place of another.

Suppose (v. i.) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.

Suppose (n.) Supposition.

Supposeer (n.) One who supposes.

Supposition (n.) The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

Supposition (n.) That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence.

Suppositional (a.) Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.

Supposititious (a.) Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing.

Supposititious (a.) Suppositional; hypothetical.

Suppositive (a.) Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed.

Suppositive (n.) A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc.

Suppositor (n.) An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.

Suppositories (pl. ) of Suppository

Suppository (n.) A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.

Supposure (n.) Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture.

Suppressed (imp. & p. p.) of Suppress

Suppressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppress

Suppress (v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

Suppress (v. t.) To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.

Suppress (v. t.) To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth.

Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.

Suppressible (a.) That may be suppressed.

Suppression (n.) The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.

Suppression (n.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.

Suppression (n.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word.

Suppressive (a.) Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.

Suppressor (n.) One who suppresses.

Supprise (v. t.) To surprise.

Suppurant (n.) A suppurative.

Suppurated (imp. & p. p.) of Suppurate

Suppurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppurate

Suppurate (v. i.) To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

Suppurate (v. t.) To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.

Suppuration (n.) The act or process of suppurating.

Suppuration (n.) The matter produced by suppuration; pus.

Suppurative (a.) Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.

Suppurative (n.) A suppurative medicine.

Supputate (v. t.) To suppute.

Supputation (n.) Reckoning; account.

Suppute (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to suppose; to impute.

Supra (adv.) Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.

Supra-acromial (a.) Situated above the acromial process of the scapula.

Supra-angular (a.) See Surangular.

Supra-auricular (a.) Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds.

Supra-auricular (n.) A supra-auricular feather.

Supra-axillary (a.) Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.

Suprabranchial (a.) Situated above the branchiae; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.

Suprachoroid (a.) Alt. of Suprachoroidal

Suprachoroidal (a.) Situated above the choroid; -- applied to the layer of the choroid coat of the eyeball next to the sclerotic.

Supraciliary (a.) Superciliary.

Supraclavicle (n.) A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post-temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.

Supraclavicular (a.) Situated above the clavicle.

Supraclavicular (a.) Of or pertaining to the supraclavicle.

Supracondylar (a.) Alt. of Supracondyloid

Supracondyloid (a.) Situated above a condyle or condyles.

Supracostal (a.) Situated above, or on the outside of, the ribs.

Supracranial (a.) Situated above, or in the roof of, the cranium.

Supracretaceous (a.) Lying above the chalk; Supercretaceous.

Supradecompound (a.) More than decompound; divided many times.

Supra-esophagal (a.) Alt. of Supra-esophageal

Supra-esophageal (a.) Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the esophagus; as, the supra-esophageal ganglion of Crustacea.

Supra-ethmoid (a.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.

Suprafoliaceous (a.) Inserted into the stem above the leaf, petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower.

Supraglotic (a.) Situated above the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx above the true vocal cords.

Suprahepatic (a.) Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins.

Suprahyoid (a.) Hyomental.

Supra-ilium (n.) The cartilaginous cap at the sacral end of the ilium of some animals.

Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian.

Supralapsarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Supralapsarians, or their doctrine.

Supralapsarianism (n.) The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Supralapsarians.

Supralapsary (a.) Supralapsarian.

Supralapsary (n.) A Supralapsarian.

Supraloral (a.) Situated above the lores; as, the supraloral feathers of a bird.

Supraloral (n.) A supraloral feather.

Supralunar (a.) Alt. of Supralunary

Supralunary (a.) Beyond the moon; hence, very lofty.

Supramaxillae (pl. ) of Supramaxilla

Supramaxilla (n.) The upper jaw or maxilla.

Supramaxillary (a.) Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve.

Supramaxillary (a.) Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.

Supramundane (a.) Being or situated above the world or above our system; celestial.

Supranaturalism (n.) The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.

Supranaturalist (n.) A supernaturalist.

Supranaturalist (a.) Alt. of Supranaturalistic

Supranaturalistic (a.) Of or pertaining to supernaturalism; supernaturalistic.

Supraoccipital (a.) Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone.

Supraoccipital (n.) The supraoccipital bone.

Supraocular (a.) Above the eyes; -- said of certain scales of fishes and reptiles.

Supra-oesophagal (a.) See Supra-esophagal.

Supraorbital (a.) Alt. of Supraorbitar

Supraorbitar (a.) Situated above the orbit of the eye.

Suprapedal (a.) Situated above the foot of a mollusk; as, the suprapedal gland.

Supraprotest (n.) An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee.

Suprapubian (a.) Alt. of Suprapubic

Suprapubic (a.) Situated above, or anterior to, the pubic bone.

Suprarenal (a.) Situated above, or anterior to, the kidneys.

Suprarenal (n.) A suprarenal capsule.

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