supposal

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUPPO'SAL, noun [from suppose.] Position without proof; the imagining of something to exist; supposition. Interest, with Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom.
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