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Supposititious   Listen
adjective
Supposititious  adj.  
1.
Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing.
2.
Suppositional; hypothetical. (R.)





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"Supposititious" Quotes from Famous Books



... wearied with the exertion of their talk. His eyes had left Milo's, and had concentrated on the man's big and hairy hands. As Milo spoke of the supposititious criminals who desired his possessions enough to do murder for them, his fists clenched, tightly. And to Brice's memory ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune
... fashion, but in my young days any and every occasion of offence was seized upon as a casus belli. Duels were fought on the most frivolous occasions and for the slightest possible affronts, intentional or supposititious. ...
— Recollections of Old Liverpool • A Nonagenarian


Words linked to "Supposititious" :   divinatory, supposed, suppositious, hypothetic, suppositional, theoretical, hypothetical


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