<B>suppose, </B>verb, <B>-posed,</B> <B>-posing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to consider as possible; take for granted; assume. <BR> <I>Ex. Suppose we leave early in the morning. Suppose we are late, what will the teacher say? Suppose that the sum of the angles equals 90 degrees.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to consider as true or probably true; incline to think or believe. <BR> <I>Ex. Where do you suppose I left my purse? This furniture is supposed to have been in the family for 150 years.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to believe, think, or imagine; presume. <BR> <I>Ex. I suppose that she will come as usual. Did you suppose that all snakes were poisonous? Happiness depends ... less on exterior things than most suppose (William Cowper).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to presume the existence or presence of. <BR> <I>Ex. We have no reason to suppose ... any radical difference of language (William Ewart Gladstone).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to require as a condition; involve as necessary; imply; presuppose. <BR> <I>Ex. An invention supposes an inventor.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to expect (used in the passive). <BR> <I>Ex. I'm supposed to be there early.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to conjecture; think; imagine. </DL>
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<B>supposed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>accepted as true, but without actual or final proof; assumed. <BR> <I>Ex. a supposed fact. The supposed beggar was really a prince.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>considered as possible or probable; hypothetical. <BR> <I>Ex. a supposed limit to human development.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>imaginary. <BR> <I>Ex. a supposed insult.</I> </DL>
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<B>supposedly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> according to what is supposed or was supposed. (SYN) presumably, probably. </DL>
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<B>supposing, </B>conjunction.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the event that; if. <BR> <I>Ex. Supposing it rains, shall we still go to the zoo?</I> </DL>
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<B>supposition, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of supposing. <BR> <I>Ex. a policy based on the supposition of continued peace.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a thing supposed; belief; opinion. <BR> <I>Ex. to abandon a basic supposition. The speaker planned his talk on the supposition that his hearers would be schoolchildren.</I> (SYN) assumption, conjecture. </DL>
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<B>suppositional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or based on supposition; hypothetical; supposed. adv. <B>suppositionally.</B> </DL>
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<B>suppositious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or based on supposition; hypothetical; supposed. <BR> <I>Ex. suppositious enemies, a suppositious relationship.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>not genuine; spurious; false. <BR> <I>Ex. a suppositious testimony.</I> </DL>
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<B>supposititious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>put by fraud in the place of the genuine or original thing or person. <BR> <I>Ex. a supposititious copy in place of the original.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>not genuine; pretended; false. <BR> <I>Ex. a supposititious science.</I> (SYN) spurious, counterfeit. <DD><B> 3. </B>involving or based on supposition; hypothetical; supposed. <BR> <I>Ex. a supposititious case.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>illegitimate. <BR> <I>Ex. a supposititious son.</I> adv. <B>supposititiously.</B> noun <B>supposititiousness.</B> </DL>
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<B>suppositive, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of the nature of, implying, or grounded on supposition; supposed. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Grammar.) expressing a supposition; conditional. <DD><I>noun </I> (Grammar.) a suppositive word. adv. <B>suppositively.</B> </DL>
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<B>suppository, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a medicine in the form of a cone or cylinder to be put into a body cavity, such as the rectum, vagina, or urethra, for any of various purposes; bougie. </DL>
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<B>suppress, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to put an end to; stop by force; put down. <BR> <I>Ex. The police suppressed a riot by firing over the heads of the mob.</I> (SYN) subdue, quell, crush. <DD><B> 2. </B>to keep in; hold back; keep from appearing. <BR> <I>Ex. to suppress a smile. She suppressed a yawn. Each nation suppressed news that was not favorable to it. Newspapers had easily gotten copies of the Cameron report and published the suppressed paragraph alongside the final official one (Carl Sandburg).</I> (SYN) restrain, repress. <DD><B> 3. </B>to subdue (as a feeling, thought, or habit). <BR> <I>Ex. suppressed desires. Gradually the child's unconscious fills more or less deliberately with things forgotten (suppressed) because they are unpleasant (Time).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to check the flow of. <BR> <I>Ex. to suppress bleeding.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to keep secret; refrain from disclosing or divulging. <BR> <I>Ex. to suppress the truth.</I> </DL>
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<B>suppressant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> that suppresses an attack, symptom, reaction, or the like; suppressive. <BR> <I>Ex. a suppressant drug or medicine.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a suppressant medicine. <BR> <I>Ex. cough suppressants.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a substance that suppresses an effect or reaction. <BR> <I>Ex. a fire suppressant.</I> </DL>
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<B>suppressedly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a suppressed or restrained manner. <BR> <I>Ex. to laugh suppressedly.</I> </DL>
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<B>suppresser, </B>noun. <B>=suppressor.</B></DL>
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<B>suppressible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be suppressed. </DL>
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<B>suppression, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of putting down by force or authority; putting an end to. <BR> <I>Ex. Soldiers were used in the suppression of the revolt.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of keeping in; holding back. <BR> <I>Ex. the suppression of a childish, silly fear. The suppression of facts may be as dishonest as the telling of lies.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Psychoanalysis.) <DD><B> a. </B>the conscious controlling or inhibiting of a desire or impulse. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=repression.</B> </DL>
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<B>suppressio veri,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) suppression of the true; misrepresentation of the truth by concealing facts. </DL>
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<B>suppressive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to suppress; causing suppression. <BR> <I>Ex. The drug ... is of the suppressive type, which means it would not provide a cure but would be used to control the disease (Science News).</I> noun <B>suppressiveness.</B> </DL>
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<B>suppressor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that suppresses, crushes, or quells. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person or thing that represses, checks, or stifles. <BR> <I>Ex. Sound suppressors put the finger squarely on the solution of the jet noise problem (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who conceals. </DL>
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<B>suppressor T cell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a type of T cell that moderates the activity of helper T cells and killer T cells when they have destroyed viral, bacterial and other foreign matter in the body. <BR> <I>Ex. Helper T cells increase the activity of B cells. Suppressor T cells reduce it, keeping immune defenses in balance (Harold M. Schmeck, Jr.).</I> </DL>
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<B>Supp. Rev. Stat.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Supplement to the Revised Statutes. </DL>
<B>suppurate, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-rated,</B> <B>-rating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to form or discharge pus; fester; maturate. <BR> <I>Ex. The infected wound suppurated badly.</I> </DL>
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<B>suppuration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the formation or discharge of pus; festering; maturation. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=pus.</B> </DL>
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<B>suppurative, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>promoting suppuration. <DD><B> 2. </B>attended or characterized by suppuration. <DD><B> 3. </B>suppurating. <DD><I>noun </I> an agent or remedy that promotes suppuration. </DL>
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<B>supr.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> supreme. </DL>
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<B>supra, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>above. <DD><B> 2. </B>before, in a book or writing. </DL>
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<B>supra-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (prefix.) on; above; beyond, as in <I>supraliminal, supranational, suprarenal.</I> </DL>
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<B>supraesophageal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> situated above or on the dorsal side of the esophagus. <BR> <I>Ex. supraesophageal ganglia.</I> </DL>
<B>supralapsarian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an adherent of the doctrine of supralapsarianism. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with supralapsarianism or its adherents. </DL>
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<B>supralapsarianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Calvinist doctrine that the division of mankind into the elect and the damned is God's basic purpose and that the fall of man was an instrumentality to achieve this end, consequent on that original purpose, and formed part of the divinely decreed plan of the creation of the world. </DL>
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<B>supraliminal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> above the margin or threshold of consciousness; conscious. </DL>
<B>supramaxillary, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-laries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Anatomy.) <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the upper jaw or upper jawbone. <DD><I>noun </I> the upper jawbone. </DL>
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<B>supramolecular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>above, or having more complexity than, a molecule. <DD><B> 2. </B>made up of more than one molecule. </DL>
