supposable

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There was more than one element, therefore, in the supposable value of the Noank, considered as the prize of the British frigate, Clyde.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.

A look at the quotations from Kropotkin will show that I have not drawn much on my own ingenuity in conceiving such a scheme as supposable.

From Anarchism by Eltzbacher, Paul

There is reason to believe that many of these supposable saline combinations are not capable of being formed, which must greatly reduce the real number of neutral salts producible by nature and art.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

Fleda wondered afresh; it struck her as scarcely supposable that some sign shouldn't have flashed from Poynton to London.

From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry

That is a different matter, though I think it is not a supposable case; he has too much at stake to care to agitate so serious a subject.

From The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.