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.

If this doctrine is true, it is demonstrably evident, that in no instance, real or supposable, have men any power whatever to will or to act differently from what they do.

From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa

When the greater force is greater than all supposable will, then its sequents take place by a general relative necessity.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip

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.

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