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English
Etymology
From suppose + -ure.
Noun
supposure (plural supposures)
- (obsolete) supposition; conjecture
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. , London: John Martyn and Henry Herringman, , published 1678; republished in A R Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:Thy other arguments are all Supposures, hypothetica
References
“supposure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.