(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?
(v. t.) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
(v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws
of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.
(v. t.) To put by fraud in the place of another.
(v. i.) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.
(n.) Supposition.
