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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1691
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Supposed, ppl. adj. (adv.). [e.m.E. supposed (1582); Suppos(e v.] Mistakenly believed, erroneously held to be (what the following adjective implies). —ppl. adj. 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 428.
Every age transmitting such supposed-profitable folly, and reckoning it a greater piaculum to neglect such, than to transgress Gods most holy and undoubted commandments
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