suppositive
adjective
of the nature of or involving supposition; suppositional.
suppositively
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a word derived from
suppositive.
Example Sentences
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The indicative mood is varied four ways. 1st, affirmatively, he writes; 2d, negatively, he writes not; 3d, interrogatively, does he write? or writes he? 4th, suppositively, if he writes, suppose he writes, allow he writes.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
