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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of suppose

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suppose +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • A “perseverance on these terms supposeth a possibility of non-persevering,” if you regard only the nature of the things themselves, and set aside all consideration of the purpose and promises of God concerning the end, which is to beg the thing in hand; yea, the promise of

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • But the injustice of an action (that is to say, injury) supposeth an individual person injured; namely him to whom the covenant was made: and therefore many times the injury is received by one man when the damage redoundeth to another.

    Leviathan 2007

  • The part affected in the meantime, as [4753] Arnoldus supposeth, is the former part of the head for want of moisture, which his

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [1612] Agrippa supposeth to have happened by force of imagination: that some are turned to wolves, from men to women, and women again to men (which is constantly believed) to the same imagination; or from men to asses, dogs, or any other shapes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Frenchman, hath observed thirty-three, and those neither spots nor clouds, as Galileo, Epist. ad Valserum, supposeth, but planets concentric with the sun, and not far from him with regular motions.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For where a man seeth another worshipped, he supposeth him powerful, and is the readier to obey him; which makes his power greater.

    Leviathan 2007

  • In like manner, he that supposeth himself injured, in a case determined by the written law, which he may by himself or others see and consider; if he complain before he consults with the law, he does unjustly, and bewrayeth a disposition rather to vex other men than to demand his own right.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Ninthly, harm inflicted for a fact done before there was a law that forbade it is not punishment, but an act of hostility: for before the law, there is no transgression of the law: but punishment supposeth a fact judged to have been a transgression of the law; therefore harm inflicted before the law made is not punishment, but an act of hostility.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Salvation of a sinner supposeth a precedent redemption; for he that is once guilty of sin is obnoxious to the penalty of the same; and must pay, or some other for him, such ransom as he that is offended, and has him in his power, shall require.

    Leviathan 2007

  • [5496] I doubt not, therefore, but if a man had such an army of lovers (as Castilio supposeth) he might soon conquer all the world, except by chance he met with such another army of inamoratos to oppose it.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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