Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 198
Suppose (v. t.) To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?
Suppose they take offence without a cause. -- Shak.
When we have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to make any doubt of its existence. -- Tillotson.
Suppose (v. t.) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -- Shak.
Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead. -- 2 Sam. xiii. 32.
Suppose (v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.
One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected. -- Female Quixote.
Suppose (v. t.) To put by fraud in the place of another. [Obs.]
Syn: To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view; regard; conjecture; assume.
Suppose (v. i.) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. -- Acts ii. 15.
Suppose (n.) Supposition. [Obs.] -- Shak. "A base suppose that he is honest." -- Dryden.
Suppose (v.) Express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money -- what would you do?" [syn: suppose, say].
Suppose (v.) Expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess].
Suppose (v.) To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" [syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose].
Suppose (v.) Take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work" [syn: presuppose, suppose].
Suppose (v.) Require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This step presupposes two prior ones" [syn: presuppose, suppose].
Supposeer (n.) One who supposes.
Supposition (n.) The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
Supposition (n.) That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence.
This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is imposible to be false. -- Tillotson.
He means are in supposition. -- Shak.
Supposition (n.) A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence [syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis].
Supposition (n.) A hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions" [syn: assumption, supposition, supposal].
Supposition (n.) The cognitive process of supposing [syn: supposition, supposal].
Suppositional (a.) Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed. -- South.
Supposititious (a.) 偷偷換掉的，冒充的 Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. -- Bacon.
Supposititious (a.) 想像的，假定的 Suppositional; hypothetical. [R.] -- Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ness, n.
Supposititious (a.) Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious].
Suppositive (a.) Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. -- Hammond.
Suppositive (n.) A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc. -- Harris.
Suppositor (n.) (Med.) An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.
Suppositories (n. pl. ) of Suppository.
Suppository (n.) (Med.) 【醫】栓劑 A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.
Suppository (n.) A small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts.
Supposure (n.) Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. [Obs.] -- Hudibras.
Suppressed (imp. & p. p.) of Suppress.
Suppressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppress.
Suppress (v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the subject weaker, and the prince stronger. -- Sir J. Davies.
Suppress (v. t.) To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile. -- Sir W. Scott.
Suppress (v. t.) To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth.
She suppresses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense. -- Broome.
Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.
Syn: To repress; restrain; put down; overthrow; overpower; overwhelm; conceal; stifle; stop; smother.
Suppress (v.) To put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" [syn: suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb].
Suppress (v.) Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists" [syn: oppress, suppress, crush].
Suppress (v.) Control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior [syn: inhibit, bottle up, suppress].
Suppress (v.) Put out of one's consciousness [syn: suppress, repress].
Suppress (v.) Reduce the incidence or severity of or stop; "suppress a yawn"; "this drug can suppress the hemorrhage".
Suppressible (a.) That may be suppressed.
Suppression (n.) The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.
Suppression (n.) (Med.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. -- Quain.
Suppression (n.) (Gram.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word.
Syn: Overthrow; destruction; concealment; repression; detention; retention; obstruction.
Suppression (n.) The failure to develop some part or organ.
Suppression (n.) The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" [syn: suppression, curtailment].
Suppression (n.) Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" [syn: suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling].
Suppression (n.) (Psychology) The conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires [syn: inhibition, suppression].
Suppressive (a.) Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
Suppressor (n.) One who suppresses.
Supprise (v. t.) To surprise. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Suppurant (n.) (Med.) A suppurative.
Suppurated (imp. & p. p.) of Suppurate.
Suppurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppurate.
Suppurate (v. i.) 化膿 To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.
Suppurate (v. t.) 使化膿 To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore. -- Arbuthnot.
Suppurate (v.) Cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules" [syn: suppurate, mature].
Suppurate (v.) Ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: fester, maturate, suppurate].
Compare: Pus
Pus (n.) [Mass noun] 膿；膿汁A thick yellowish or greenish opaque liquid produced in infected tissue, consisting of dead white blood cells and bacteria with tissue debris and serum.
Compare: Opaque
Opaque (a.) (Opaquer, opaquest) 不透明的，不透光的；不反光的，不發亮的；暗的；不傳導的 Not able to be seen through; not transparent.
‘Bottles filled with a pale opaque liquid.’
Opaque (a.) (Opaquer, opaquest) (Especially of language) Hard or impossible to understand.
‘Technical jargon that was opaque to her.’
Opaque (n.) [U] [C] 不透明體；【攝】不透明顏料 An opaque thing.
Opaque (n.) (Photography) [Mass noun] A substance for producing opaque areas on negatives.
Suppuration (n.) 化膿，生膿 The act or process of suppurating.
Suppuration (n.) The matter produced by suppuration; pus.
Suppuration (n.) (Medicine) The formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus [syn: festering, suppuration, maturation].
Suppuration (n.) A fluid product of inflammation [syn: pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering].
Suppurative (a.) 使化膿的；化膿的；生膿的 Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.
Suppurative fever (Med.), Pyaemia.
Suppurative (n.) (Med.) 化膿藥；催膿劑 A suppurative medicine.
Suppurative (a.) Relating to or characterized by suppuration [ant: nonsuppurative].
Supputate (v. t.) To suppute. [Obs.]
Supputation (n.) Reckoning; account. [Obs.]
Suppute (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to suppose; to impute. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Supra (adv.) Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.
Supra (adv.) At an earlier place; "see above" [syn: above, supra] [ant: below].
Supra-acromial (a.) (Anat.) Situated above the acromial process of the scapula.
Supra-angular (a.) (Anat.) See Surangular.
Supra-auricular (a.) (Zool.) Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
Supra-auricular (n.) A supra-auricular feather.
Supra-axillary (a.) (Bot.) Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.
Suprabranchial (a.) (Zool.) Situated above the branchiae; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks. Suprachoroid
Suprachoroid (a.) Alt. of Suprachoroidal.
Suprachoroidal (a.) (Anat.) Situated above the choroid; -- applied to the layer of the choroid coat of the eyeball next to the sclerotic.
Supraciliary (a.) (Anat.) Superciliary.
Supraclavicle (n.) (Anat.) A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post-temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.
Supraclavicular (a.) (Anat.) Situated above the clavicle.
Supraclavicular (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the supraclavicle. Supracondylar
Supracondylar (a.) Alt. of Supracondyloid.
Supracondyloid (a.) (Anat.) Situated above a condyle or condyles.
Supracostal (a.) (Anat.) Situated above, or on the outside of, the ribs.
Supracranial (a.) (Anat.) Situated above, or in the roof of, the cranium.
Supracretaceous (a.) (Geol.) Lying above the chalk; Supercretaceous.
Supradecompound (a.) (Bot.) More than decompound; divided many times. Supra-esophagal
Supra-esophagal (a.) Alt. of Supra-esophageal.
Supra-esophageal (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the esophagus; as, the supra-esophageal ganglion of Crustacea. [Written also supra-oesophagal, and supra-oesophageal.]
Supra-ethmoid (a.) (Anat.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.
Suprafoliaceous (a.) (Bot.) Inserted into the stem above the leaf, petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower.
Supraglotic (a.) (Anat.) Situated above the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx above the true vocal cords.
Suprahepatic (a.) (Anat.) Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins.
Suprahyoid (a.) (Anat.) Hyomental.
Supra-ilium (n.) (Anat.) The cartilaginous cap at the sacral end of the ilium of some animals.
Supralapsarian (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian.
Supralapsarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Supralapsarians, or their doctrine.
Supralapsarianism (n.) The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Supralapsarians.
Supralapsary (a.) Supralapsarian.
Supralapsary (n.) A Supralapsarian.
Supraloral (a.) (Zool.) Situated above the lores; as, the supraloral feathers of a bird.
Supraloral (n.) A supraloral feather. Supralunar
Supralunar (a.) Alt. of Supralunary.
Supralunary (a.) Beyond the moon; hence, very lofty.
Supramaxillae (n. pl. ) of Supramaxilla.
Supramaxilla (n.) (Anat.) The upper jaw or maxilla.
Supramaxillary (a.) (Anat.) Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve.
Supramaxillary (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
Supramundane (a.) Being or situated above the world or above our system; celestial.
Supernaturalism (n.) The quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalness.
Supernaturalism (n.) (Theol.) The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than physical or natural causes in the case. [Written also supranaturalism.]
Supranaturalism (n.) The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.
Supranaturalist (n.) A supernaturalist. Supranaturalist
Supranaturalist (a.) Alt. of Supranaturalistic.
Supranaturalistic (a.) Of or pertaining to supernaturalism; supernaturalistic.
Supraoccipital (a.) (Anat.) Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone.
Supraoccipital bone (Anat.), A bone on the dorsal side of the great foramen of the skull, usually forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but distinct in the young.
Supraoccipital (n.) The supraoccipital bone.
Supraocular (a.) (Zool.) Above the eyes; -- said of certain scales of fishes and reptiles.
Supraocular (a.) Located or occurring above the eye socket [syn: supraorbital, supraocular].
Supra-esophagal, Supra-esophageal (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the esophagus; as, the supra-esophageal ganglion of Crustacea. [Written also supra-oesophagal, and supra-oesophageal.]
Supra-oesophagal (a.) (Anat.) See Supra-esophagal. Supraorbital
Supraorbital (a.) Alt. of Supraorbitar.
Supraorbitar (a.) (Anat.) Situated above the orbit of the eye.
Supraorbital point (Anat.), The middle point of the supraorbital line, which is a line drawn across the narrowest part of the forehead, separating the face from the cranium; the ophryon.
Supraorbital (a.) Located or occurring above the eye socket [syn: supraorbital, supraocular].
Suprapedal (a.) (Zool.) Situated above the foot of a mollusk; as, the suprapedal gland.
Supraprotest (n.) (Mercantile Law) An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. -- Burrill. Suprapubian
Suprapubian (a.) Alt. of Suprapubic.
Suprapubic (a.) (Anat.) Situated above, or anterior to, the pubic bone.
Suprarenal (a.) (Anat.) Situated above, or anterior to, the kidneys.
Suprarenal (n.) A suprarenal capsule.
Suprarenal capsules (Anat.), Two small bodies of unknown function in front of, or near, the kidneys in most vertebrates. Also called renal capsules, and suprarenal bodies. Suprascalpular
Suprarenal gland (n.) Either of a pair of complex endocrine glands situated near the kidney [syn: adrenal gland, adrenal, suprarenal gland].
Suprarenal gland (n.) (Anatomy) Either of a pair of complex endocrine glands situated near the kidney. Also called Adrenal gland.