706 SUP 
SUPPLY'MENT, s. Prevention of deficiency. Not in 
use. 
I will never fail 
Beginning, nor supplement. Shakspeare. 
To SUPPO'RT, v. a. [ supporter , Fr., supportare, Hal.] 
To sustain ; to prop ; to bear up.—Stooping to support each 
flower of tender stalk. Milton. 
The palace built by Picus, vast and proud. 
Supported by a hundred pillars stood. Dryden. 
To endure any thing painful without being overcome.-— 
Strongly to suffer and support our pains. Milton. —To 
endure; to bear.—None can support a diet of flesh and 
water without acids, as salt, vinegar, and bread, without 
falling into a putrid fever. Arbuthnot. —To sustain; to 
keep from fainting. 
With inward consolations recompens’d. 
And oft supported. Milton. 
SUPPO'RT, s. [ support , Fr.] Act or power of sustain¬ 
ing.—Though the idea we have of a horse or stone be but 
the collection of those several sensible qualities which we 
find united in them, yet, because we cannot conceive how 
they should subsist alone, we suppose them existing in and 
supported by some common subject, which support we 
denote by the name substance, though it be certain we have 
no clear idea of that support. Locke. —Prop ; sustaining 
power. Necessaries of life.—Maintenance; supply.—Let 
us next consider the ward, or person within age, for whose 
assistance and support these guardians are constituted by 
law. Blackstone. 
SUPPO'RTABLE, ad). [ supportable , Fr.] Tolerable; 
to be endured. It may be observed that Shakspeare accents 
the first syllable. 
As great to me, as late; and, supportable 
To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker 
Than you may call to comfort you. Shakspeare. 
SUPPO'RT ABLENESS, s. The state of being tolerable. 
—It hath an influence on the supportableness of the 
burthen. Hammond. 
SUPPO'RTANCE, or Supporta'tion, s. Maintenance; 
support. Obsolete. —Give some supportance to the bend¬ 
ing twigs. Shakspeare. —The benefited subject should 
render some small portion of his gain, for the supportation 
of the king’s expence. Bacon. 
SUPPO'llTER, s. One that supports.-—Because a rela¬ 
tion cannot be founded in nothing, and the thing here related 
as a supporter, or a support, is not represented to the mind 
by any distinct idea. Locke. —Prop; that by which any 
thing is borne up from falling.—There is no loss of room at 
the bottom, as there is in a building set upon supporters. 
Mortimer. —Sustainer; comforter. The saints have a com¬ 
panion and supporter in all their miseries. South. —Main- 
tamer; defender.—The beginning of the earl of Essex I 
must attribute in great part to my lord of Leicester ; but yet 
as an introducer or supporter, not as a teacher. Wotton. — 
Supporters. [In Heraldry.] Figures of beasts, birds, and 
sometimes of human beings, which support the arms.—More 
might be added of helms, crests, mantles, and supporters. 
Camden. 
SUPPO'RTFUL, adj. Abounding with support. Not 
used. 
Upon the Eolian god’s supportfull wings, 
With chearefull shouts, they parted from the s hore. 
Mir. for Mag. 
SUPPO'RTMENT, s. Support. Obsolete. Milton. 
SUPPO'SABLE, adj. That may be supposed. 
SUPPO'SAL, s. Position without proof; imagination ; 
belief.—Little can be looked for towards the advancement of 
natural theory, but from those that are likely to mend our 
prospect: the defect of events, and sensible appearances, 
suffer us to proceed no further towards science, than to im¬ 
perfect guesses and timorous supposals. Glanvil/e. 
To SUPPO'SE, v. a. [ suppostr , Fr., suppono t Lat.]— 
SUP 
To lay down without proof; to advance by way of argu¬ 
ment or illustration without maintaining the truth of the 
position.—Where we meet with all the indications and 
evidences of such a thing as the thing is capable of, sup- 
posing it to be true, it must needs be very irrational to make 
any doubt of it. Wilkins. —To admit without proof.— 
This is to be entertained as a firm principle, that when we 
have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, 
supposing it were, we ought not to make any doubt of its 
existence. Tillotson. —To imagine; to believe without ex¬ 
amination. 
I suppose 
We should compel them to a quick result. Milton 
To require as previous.—This supposeth something, with¬ 
out evident ground. Hale. —To make reasonably supposed. 
—One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all 
you can say suspected. Female Suixote. —To put one 
thing by fraud in the place of another. 
SUPPO'SE, s. Supposition; position without proof; 
unevidenced conceit. 
Is Egypt's safety, and the king’s, and your’s. 
Fit to be trusted on a bare suppose 
That he is honest ? Dryden. 
SUPPO'SER, s. One that supposes. 
Thou hast by marriage made thy daughter mine. 
While counterfeit supposers blear’d thine eyne. Shakspeare. 
SUPPOSITION, s. [supposition , Fr.] Position laid 
down; hypothesis; imagination yet unproved. 
Sing, syren, for thyself, and I will dote; 
Spread o’er the silver waves thy golden hairs, 
And as a bed I’ll take thee, and there lye; 
And in that glorious supposition think 
He gains by death, that hath such means to die. Shakspeare. 
SUPPOSITIONAL, adj. Hypothetical. Unused. 
SUPPOSITITIOUS, adj. [from suppositus, supposi- 
titius, Latin.] Not genuine; put by a trick into the place 
or character belonging to another.—It is their opinion that 
no man ever killed his father; but that, if it should ever 
happen, the reputed son must have been illegitimate, suppo¬ 
sititious, or begotten in adultery. Addison. —Supposed ; 
imaginary; not real.—Some alterations in the globe tend 
rather to the benefit of the earth, and its productions, than 
their destruction, as all these supposititious ones manifestly 
would do. Woodward. 
SUPPOSITITIOUSLY, ado. By supposition.— Suppo- 
sititiously he derives it from the Lunae Montes 15 degrees 
south. Sir T. Herbert. 
SUPPOSITITIOUSNESS, s. State of being counter¬ 
feit. 
SUPPO'SITIVE, adj. Supposed; including a supposi¬ 
tion. 
SUPPO'SITIVE, s. What implies supposition: as if. — 
The suppositives denote connection, but assert not actual 
existence; the positive imply both the one and the other. 
Harris. 
SUPPO'SITIVELY, ado. Upon supposition.—The un¬ 
reformed sinner may have some hope suppositively , if he do 
change and repent: the honest penitent may hope positively. 
Hammond. 
SUPPO'SITORY, s. [from suppositorium ], in Medicine, 
a species of clyster.—Various medicated substances which 
cannot be retained long enough in the bowels in a liquid 
form to produce their effects, are rolled up into a long 
cylinder and introduced into the anus, where they gradually 
dissolve. Soap generally enters into the composition of 
suppositories. They are but rarely used in the present day. 
To SUPPRESS, v. a. [supprimo, suppressus, Lat., 
supprimer, Fr.] To crush ; to overpower ; to overwhelm ; 
to subdue ; to reduce from any state of activity or commo¬ 
tion.—Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make 
the subject weaker, and the prince stronger. Davies. — 
To conceal; not to tell; not to reveal.—Still she sup¬ 
presses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense; 
