suppositional, a.
(sʌpəˈzɪʃənəl)
[f. prec. + -al1 1.]
Of the nature of, involving, or based on supposition; hypothetical, conjectural; supposed.
| 1662 J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. xxi. §5. 130 Having gotten an example (erroneous and supposi[ti]onall) [orig. putaticio] they straightway slide to a generality. 1664 Power Exp. Philos. ii. 95 We have the sensible eviction of our own eyes to confute this Suppositional Vacuity. a 1716 South Serm., 1 John iii. 30 (1744) IX. 327 Men and angels..have also a certain knowledge of them; but it is not absolute, but only suppositional; that is, upon supposal that such and such things continue in their being. 1865 Mozley Miracles vii. 152 To say that all this change would have gone on without doctrine, is..suppositional only. 1901 H. W. Holden Guidance for Men 140 The case is not altogether a suppositional one; it is found in fact. |
Hence † suppositioˈnality, suppositional quality (but in quots. app. used for suppositality); suppoˈsitionally adv. (in mod. Dicts.), hypothetically.
| 1650 Charleton Paradoxes 133 How much the Law and the Soule differ in the suppositionality of Essence. 1662 J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. xxxv. §33. 268 The amative or loving faculty, which proceeds from that supposi[ti]onality [orig. suppositionalitate] of the minde which is substantial love. |