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Meanings of supposititious in English

Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence.

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That supposititious case is a precise parallel to what has happened in Russia.
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Whether the Prince of Wales was supposititious, was a point not worth discussing.
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He made up a supposititious case, and laid it before her.
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He even soared into the realm of supposititious truth, like Plato.
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This is not an imaginary state of affairs, nor are these supposititious cases.
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Of that I believe nothing, the number is supposititious, and too prodigally foisted in.
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He had not replied to Flemming that night when the case was merely supposititious.
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The first gun was that popular device, a supposititious question.
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And that can best be illustrated by a supposititious example.
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The human race has gone ahead, as that supposititious baby goes ahead in fourteen years.
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Presenting the case as though it were a supposititious one purely, I said to him:
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The modern epic is, of the supposititious ancient model, but an inconsiderate and blindfold imitation.
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To illustrate more clearly the theory I have advanced, I will take a supposititious case.
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Listen to me, my lad; I'll put what we call a supposititious case to you.
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Prince Shadursky immediately finished dressing, ordered his carriage, and went out with the supposititious Valyajnikoff.
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The early geologists accounted for them, as for nearly everything else, with their supposititious Deluge.
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