suppositious

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In a year when snooker's maximum break, once considered as suppositious as the Himalayan Yeti, has repeatedly shown up for the cameras, it fell to O'Sullivan to show that nobody does it better.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

By quotations from suppositious, always unnamed "authorities," by innuendoes and by skilled selection of facts he presumed to prove hat Henry Ford is decaying as a maker of motor cars.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to pass all suppositious ways, which are easily thought of, but hardly procured, I propose to maintain fools out of our own folly.

From An Essay Upon Projects by Defoe, Daniel

Every ecclesiastical writer, and every assembly of Bishops, adopted as canonical the writings in which they found their own particular dogmas, the others they treated as apocryphal or suppositious.

From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Annet, Peter

We sit here to judge actual, not suppositious cases.'

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob