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

Let us take now the third condition of our suppositious case, i. e. partial confession.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

He is bitten by suppositious dogs cunningly simulated by stage carpenters, who remark "bow wow" from behind the scenes.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870 by Various

One Mrs. Hicks, and her little daughter nine years of age, were executed on the scaffold at Huntingdon in 1716, for the suppositious offences of raising storms and selling their souls to the devil.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist