supposable
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Common necessity, or necessity in the original use of the word, refers to the connexion between volition and its effects; for here an opposition to will is supposable.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
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 W. O. Stoddard
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 Paul Eltzbacher
They sat up all night, whispering over to each other the parts they were to act in case of various supposable difficulties.
From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child
"Odd, significantly odd, that in all its essential details this affair should tally so completely with the supposable case of crime given a moment before by the deformed wretch you tell me about."
From Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green
