supposititious 
Queen Philippa, Wife of King Edward the Third, upon 
her Death-bed, by way of Confession, told Wickliam that 
John of Gaunt was not the lawful Issue of King Edward, 
but a supposititious son. Baker, Chronicles, p. 167. 
About P. Gelasius's time there was a world of supposi- 
titious writings vended and received by the heretics. 
Evelyn, True Religion, I. 403. 
2. Hypothetical; supposed. [Rare.] 
The supposititious Unknowable, when exposed to the 
relentless alchemy of reason, vanishes into the merest 
vapors of abstraction, and '-leaves not a rack behind." 
Jour. Spec. Phil., XIX. 35. 
Spirifer disjunctus, . . . highly prized on account of 
its supposititious medicinal virtues. Nature, XXX. 153. 
= Syn. 1. Counterfeit, etc. See spurious. 
supposititiously (su-poz-i-tish'us-li), adr. 1. 
In a supposititious manner; spuriously. 2. 
Hypothetically; by way of supposition. [Rare.] 
Sttpposititiously he derives it from the Limsc Montes 15 
degrees south. Sir T. Herbert, Travels, p. 31. 
supposititiousness (su-poz-i-tish'us-nes), . 
The character of being supposititious. Bailey. 
suppositive (su-poz'i-tiv), a. and n. [< L. svp- 
positus, pp. of supponere, put under, substitute : 
see suppose.] I. a. Supposed; including or im- 
plying supposition. 
By a suppositive intimation and by an express predic- 
tion. Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, iv. 
Suppositive notion, an abstract or symbolical notion ; 
a notion not intuitive. 
II. n. A conditional or contiuuative conjunc- 
tion, as if, granted, provided. 
The suppositives denote connexion, but assert not actual 
existence. Harris, Hermes, ii. 2. 
suppositively (su-poz'i-tiv-li), adv. By or 
upon supposition. 
The unreformed sinner may have some hope supposi- 
tively, if he dp change and repent ; the honest penitent 
may hope positively. Hammond. 
suppositort (su-poz'i-tor), n. [< ML. supposi- 
torium, that which is put under: see supposi- 
tory.] A suppository ; hence, an aid. 
Now amorous, then scurvy, sometimes bawdy ; 
The same man still, but evermore fantastical, 
As being the suppogitor to laughter : 
It hath sav'd charge in physic. Ford, Fancies, iii. 1. 
suppository (su-poz'i-to-ri), n. ; pi. supposito- 
ries (-riz). [= F. suppositoire = Sp. supositorio 
= Pg. It. suppositorio, < LL. suppositorium, a 
suppository, neut. of suppositorius, that is 
placed underneath, < L. supponere, pp. suppos- 
itus, put under: see suppose] Inmed.: (a) A 
medicinal substance in the form of a cone or 
cylinder, introduced into the rectum, vagina, 
or uterus, there to remain and dissolve gradu- 
ally in order to procure certain specific effects. 
(b) A plug to hold back hemorrhoidal protru- 
sions. 
Suppositumt, n. [NL., neut. of L. suppositus, 
subpositus, put under, substitute: see suppose. 
Cf. supposita.] That which is supposed; the 
thing denoted by a name in a given proposition. 
See the quotation under suppositality . 
supposure (su-po'zur), n. [< suppose + -ure.] 
Supposition; hypothesis. [Rare.] 
Thy other arguments are all 
Supposures, hypothetical. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 1322. 
Suppress (su-pres'), t\ t. [< ME. "suppressen (in 
pp. suppressed), < L. suppressus, subpressus, pp. 
of supprimere, subprimere (> It. supprimere = 
F. supprimer) = Sp. siiprimir = Pg. supprimir, 
press down or under, keep back, conceal, sup- 
press, < sub, under, + premere, press : see 
press 1 ] 1. To overpower; subdue; putdown; 
quell ; crush ; stamp out. 
The ancients afford us two examples for suppressing the 
impertinent curiosity of mankind in diving into secrets. 
Bacon, Political Fables, i. 
Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the 
subject weaker and the government stronger. 
Sir J. Davies, State of Ireland. 
The Number of Monasteries suppressed were six hun- 
dred forty-five. Baker, Chronicles, p. 286. 
I have never suppressed any man ; never checked him 
for a moment in his course by any jealousy, or any policy. 
Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord. 
Conscience pleads her cause within the breast, 
Though long rebell'd against, not yet suppress'd. 
Cowper, Retirement, 1. 16. 
2. To restrain from utterance or vent; keep 
in ; repress : as, to suppress a groan. 
Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice. 
Shalt., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 1. 182. 
Resolv'd with one consent 
To give such act and utt'rance as they may 
To ecstasy too big to be suppress'd. 
Cowper, Task, vi. 340. 
3. To withhold from disclosure ; conceal ; re- 
fuse or forbear to reveal ; withhold from pub- 
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lication ; withdraw from circulation, or prohibit 
circulation of: as, to suppress evidence ; to sup- 
press a letter; to suppress an article or a poem. 
In vain an author would a name suppress; 
From the least hint a reader learns to guess. 
Crabbe, Works, V. 162. 
What is told in the fullest and most accurate annals 
bears an infinitely small proportion to that which is sup- 
pressed. JUacaulay, History. 
There was something unusually doughty in this refusal 
of Mr. Lloyd to obey the behests of the government, and 
to suppress his paper, rather than acknowledge himself in 
the wrong. F. Martin, Hist. Lloyd's, p. 76. 
4. To hinder from passage or circulation; stop; 
stifle; smother. 
Down sunk the priest : the purple hand of death 
Clos'd his dim eye, and fate supprest his breath. 
Pope, Iliad, v. 109. 
5. To stop by remedial means; check; restrain: 
as, to suppress a diarrhea or a hemorrhage. 
suppressed (su-presf), [< ME. "suppressed, 
supprissid; < suppress + -ecft.] 1. Restrained; 
repressed; concealed. 
A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, vi. 14. 
2f. Oppressed. 
Goddis law biddith help the supprissid, jugith to the 
fadirles, defendith the wydow. 
Apology for the Lollards, p. 79. (Halliwell.) 
3. In lier., debruised: as, a lion suppressed by 
a bend. 
suppressedly (su-pres'ed-li), adv. In a sup- 
pressed or restrained manner. 
They both laugh low and suppressedly. 
R. Broughtm, Second Thoughts, ii. 4. 
suppresser (su-pres'er), n. [< suppress + -er^.] 
One who suppresses; a suppressor. 
suppressible (su-pres'i-bl), a. [< suppress + 
-iole.] Capable of being suppressed, concealed, 
or restrained. 
Suppression (su-presh'on), n. [< F. suppres- 
sion = Sp. supresion = Pg. suppressao = It. 
suppressione, < L. suppressio(n-), subpressio(n-), 
a pressing down, a keeping back, suppression, 
< supprimere, subprimere, press down, suppress: 
see suppress.] 1. The act of suppressing, 
crushing, or quelling, or the state of being sup- 
pressed, crushed, quelled, or the like: as, the 
suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult. 
A magnificent "Society for the Suppression of Vice." 
Carlyle, Werner. 
2. The act of concealing or withholding from 
utterance, disclosure, revelation, or publica- 
tion : as, the suppression of truth, of evidence, 
or of reports. 
Dr. Middleton . . . resorted to the most disingenuous 
shifts, to unpardonable distortions and suppression of 
facts. Macaulay, Lord Bacon. 
The unknown amount of painful suppression that a 
cautious thinker, a careful writer, or an artist of fine taste 
has gone through represents a great physico-mental ex- 
penditure. 
A. Bain, in Stewart's Conserv. of Energy, p. 234. 
3. The stoppage or obstruction or the morbid 
retention of discharges : as, the suppression of a 
diarrhea, of saliva, or of urine. 4. In bot., the 
absence, as in flowers, of parts requisite to theo- 
retical completeness ; abortion. 
suppressionist (su-presh'on-ist), n. [< suppres- 
sion + -ist.] One who supports or advocates 
suppression. 
suppressio veri (su-presh'io ve'ri). [L. : sup- 
pressio, suppression ; veri, gen. of verum, the 
truth, neut. of verus, true: see ware 1 .] Sup- 
pression of truth; in law, an undue conceal- 
ment or non-disclosure of facts and circum- 
stances which one party is under a legal or 
equitable obligation to communicate, and 
which the other party has a right not merely 
in conscience, but juris et de jure to know. 
Minor. Compare suggestiofalsi. 
suppress! ve (su-pres'iv), a. [< suppress + 
-ive.] Tending to suppress. 
Johnson gives us expressive and oppressive, but neither 
impressive nor suppressive, though proceeding as obvious- 
ly from their respective sources. Seward, Letters, ii. 
suppressor (su-pres'or), n. [< L. suppressor, 
subpressor, a hider, concealer, < supprimere, 
subprimere, suppress : see suppress.] One who 
suppresses, crushes, or quells ; one who repress- 
es, checks, or stifles; one who conceals. M. 
Thompson, Story of Louisiana. 
suppurate (sup'u-rat), v . ; pret. and pp. suppu- 
rated, ppr. suppurating. [< L. suppnratus, sub- 
puratus, pp. of suppurare, subpurare, form pus, 
gather matter: see suppure.] I. intrans. To 
produce pus : as, a wound suppurates. 
II. trans. To produce (pus). [Rare.] 
supracephalic 
This disease is generally fatal : if it maturates the pus, 
it is evacuated into the lower belly, where it produceth 
putrefaction. Arbuthnot, Diet. 
suppuration (sup-u-ra'shou), . [< F. suppu- 
ration = Sp. supuracion = Pg. suppuraqtto = 
It. suppurazione, < L. suppuratio(n-), subpura- 
tio(n-), a suppurating, < suppurare, subpurare, 
suppurate: see suppurate.] 1. Formation of 
pus. 2. The matter produced by suppuration ; 
pus: as, the suppuration was abundant. 
suppuratiye (sup'u-ra-tiv), a. and n. [< F. 
suppuratif = Sp. supurativo = Pg. It. suppura- 
tivo; as suppurate + -ire.] I. a. Producing 
pus. 
In different cases, inflammation will bear to be called 
adhesive, or serous, or htemorrhagic, or suppurative. 
Dr. P. M. Latham, Letts, on Clin. Med. 
II. ii. A medicine that promotes suppura- 
tion. 
If the inflammation be gone too far towards a suppura- 
tion, then it must be promoted with suppuratives, and 
opened by incision. Wiseman. 
suppuret, v. i. [< OF. suppurer = Sp. supurar 
= It. suppurare, < L. suppurare, subpurare, form 
pus, gather matter, < sub, under, -f pus (pur-), 
pus: see pus.] To suppurate. Cotgrave. 
supputatet, t. [< L. supputatus, subputatus, 
pp. of supputare, subputare (> It. supputare = 
Pg. supputar = 8p. suputar = F. suppnter), 
count up, reckon: see suppute.] To reckon; 
compute: as, to supputate time or distance. 
A. Wood, Athenaa Oxon., I. 
supputationt (sup-u-ta'shon), n. [< F. suppu- 
tation = Sp. suputacion = Pg. supputagSo = It. 
supputazione, < L. supputatio(n-), subputatio(n-), 
a reckoning up, < supputare, subputare, reckon : 
see suppute.] A reckoning; account; compu- 
tation. 
Expert sea men affyrme that euery league conteyneth 
foure myles. after theyr supputations. 
Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, ed. 
[Arber, p. 85). 
I speak of a long time ; it is above forty quarantains, or 
forty times forty nights, according to the supputation of 
the Ancient Druids. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, L 1. 
supputet (su-puf), v. t. [< L. supputare, subpu- 
tare, compute, reckon, also cut off, lop, trim, < 
sub, under, + putare, reckon, think, cleanse, 
trim: see putation, and of. compute, depute, im- 
pute, repute .] To reckon; compute; impute. 
That, in a learn'd war, the foe they would invade, 
And, like stout floods, stand free from this supputed shame. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xxix. 363. 
supra-. [< L. supra-, prefix, rare in L., but 
rather common in ML., < supra, adv., orig. 
superd, adv. and prep., on the upper side, 
above, beyond, before, more than, besides; orig. 
contr. abl. fern, of superus, that is above, higher, 
< super = Gr. vvep, above, over: see super-.] 
A prefix of Latin origin, meaning ' above,' ' be- 
yond.' It is used in the same way as super-, with which 
in terms of anatomy, zoology, botany, etc., it is inter- 
changeable, but is somewhat more technical. It is opposed 
to infra-, and to sub-, subter-, and hypo-. Recent techni- 
cal words with supra- are in the following list left with- 
out further etymological note. 
supra-acromial (su"pra-a-kro'mi-al), a. Same 
as superacromial Supra-acromlal artery, a branch 
of the suprascapular artery, anastomosing with twigs of 
the acromiothoracic artery. Supra-acromial nerve. 
See supraclavi-cular nerve, under supraclavicular. 
supra-acromiohumeralis (su'pra-a-kr6"mi-6- 
hu-me-ra'lis), n. The deltoid muscle. 
supra-anal (su-pra-a'nal), a. In entom., placed 
above the tip of the abdomen, on the last ab- 
dominal segment seen from above. Also super- 
anal, suranal. Supra-anal groove, a transverse hol- 
low on the last abdominal segment, just above the anal 
orifice, of many Hymenoptera, Supra -anal lamina. 
Same as preanal segment (which see, under preanal). Su- 
pra-anal tubercle or plate, a harder projecting part 
of the integument on the posterior extremity of a larva, 
especially of a caterpillar. 
supra-angular (su-prji-ang'gu-lar), . Same as 
gurangular. 
SUpra-auricnlar (su*'pra-a-rik'u-lar), a. Situ- 
ated over the auricle or external ear. Supra- 
auricular point, in cranium., a point vertically over the 
auricular point at the root of the zygomatic process. See 
cut under craniometry. 
supra-axillary (su-pra-ak'si-la-ri), a. In bot., 
inserted above instead of in the axil, as a pe- 
duncle. Compare suprafoHaceous. 
SUprabranchial (su-prS-brang'ki-al), o. Situ- 
ated over or above the gills, as of a fish or mol- 
lusk. 
suprabuccal (su-pra-buk'al), a. Situated over 
or above the buccal region, as of a mollusk. 
supracephalic (su"pra-se-farikor-sef'a-lik), a. 
Placed on (the top of) the head. Science, VII. 
27. [Rare.] 
