Definition of Supposititiousness. Meaning of Supposititiousness. Synonyms of Supposititiousness

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Definition of Supposititiousness

Supposititiousness
Supposititious Sup*pos`i*ti"tious, a. [L. suppositicus. See Supposition.] 1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. --Bacon. 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. [R.] --Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ness, n.

Meaning of Supposititiousness from wikipedia

- Supposititious children are fraudulent offspring. These arose when an heir was required and so a suitable baby might be procured and p****ed off as genuine...
- Catholic dynasty, several influential Protestants claimed the child was supposititious and had been smuggled into the Queen's bedchamber in a warming pan....
- and Anne, be raised a Roman Catholic. Some charged that the boy was "supposititious", having been secretly smuggled into the Queen's room in a bed-warming...
- me firm to my religion and faithfully yours." To dispel rumours of a supposititious child, James had 40 witnesses to the birth attend a Privy Council meeting...
- H. “Tablets from the Sippar Library. I. The ‘Weidner Chronicle’: A Supposititious Royal Letter Concerning a Vision.” Iraq, vol. 52, pp. 1–13, 1990 [2]Augusta...
- landmark about which little is known. The satirist Juvenal writes of supposititious children taken up from the dregs to the bosom of the goddess Fortuna...
- witnessed by members of the family and senior courtiers to guard against supposititious children. But in fact, Augusta's due date was earlier. When she in went...
- examine a widow suspected to be feigning pregnancy in order to enable a supposititious heir to obtain the estate. It lay also where a woman sentenced to death...
- H. “Tablets from the Sippar Library. I. The ‘Weidner Chronicle’: A Supposititious Royal Letter Concerning a Vision.” Iraq, vol. 52, pp. 1–13, 1990 O....
- NH, "Tablets from the Sippar library, I. The “Weidner Chronicle”: a supposititious royal letter concerning a vision", Iraq 52, pp. 1-13, 1990 Günbatti...