proposed, ppl. a.
(prəʊˈpəʊzd)
[f. propose v. + -ed1.]
Put forward for consideration or adoption; ‘given’ or stated (in the premisses); intended, etc.: see the verb.
| c 1430 Art Nombryng 8 Multiplicacioun of nombre by hym-self other by a nother, with proposide .2. nombres, [is] the fyndyng of the thirde. 1635 Swan Spec. M. ii. (1643) 29 There should be a proposed point or mark. 1780 Newgate Cal. V. 8 Her mother..was a warm friend to the proposed marriage. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 715 The proposed law, they said, was a retrospective penal law, and therefore objectionable. |
Hence proˈposedly adv. rare, intendedly, purposely.
| 1777 Sterne's Tr. Shandy I. xix, They had proposedly [edd. 1–4 purposedly, ed. 5– purposely] been plann'd and pointed against him. |