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

(inferr)

To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.

* 2010 , "Keep calm, but don't carry on", The Economist , 7 Oct 2010:

It is dangerous to infer too much from martial bluster in British politics: at the first hint of trouble, channelling Churchill is a default tactic for beleaguered leaders of all sorts.

To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially with a person as subject.)

*, II.3:

These and a thousand like propositions, which concurre in this purpose, do evidently inferre .

* Shakespeare

This doth infer the zeal I had to see him.

* Sir Thomas More

The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first.

(obsolete) To cause, inflict (something) (upon) or (to) someone.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:

faire Serena.

(obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in.

* Shakespeare

Full well hath Clifford played the orator, / Inferring arguments of mighty force.