Verb

(suppos)

To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.

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To theorize or hypothesize.

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To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

* (Bible), 2 (w) xiii. 32

Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead.

*

As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.

To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.

Purpose supposes foresight.

* 1752 , (Charlotte Lennox), (The Female Quixote)

One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.

To put by fraud in the place of another.

Verb

(en verb)

To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

* 2007 , Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, page 17:

But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.

To take exception, to object (to' or ' against ).

to except to a witness or his testimony

* Shakespeare

Except thou wilt except against my love.

*, vol.1, New York Review Books 2001, p.312:

Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words […].

* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial , Penguin 2005, page 23:

The Athenians'' might fairly except against the practise of ''Democritus to be buried up in honey; as fearing to embezzle a great commodity of their Countrey

* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 96:

he was a great lover of music, and perhaps, had he lived in town, might have passed for a connoisseur; for he always excepted against the finest compositions of Mr Handel.