presupposedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more presupposedly
form: most presupposedly
Etymology: From presupposed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Salinas Index notices a controversy in progress at Pacific Grove that threatens to rent asunder the usual harmony that has presupposedly reigned there.
ref: 1889 September 25, The Daily Bee, volume LXVI, number 10,097, Sacramento, Calif., page 1:
text: However, the solemn vow of ordination, like the divine call, upon which it is presupposedly founded, is for the whole life, and can not, therefore, be laid aside for trifling considerations or secular interests.
ref: 1890, J[ohn] C[alvin] Magee, “Derivation, or Accreditization”, in Apostolic Organism, Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe; New York: Hunt & Eaton, section II (How Is Ministry Scripturally Constituted?), page 150:
text: In every State, it is true, there is a Surgeon-General, who is presupposedly the head of such a department as the Surgeon-General of the Army is chief of the medical corps of the Army, and a Surgeon-General of the Navy, who is the chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery of the Navy Department, but is the Surgeon-General of Maryland, or Virginia, or Ohio, or Georgia ever titular head of the medical department of the National Guard of these States?
ref: 1898 April 9, “The Association of the Military Surgeons of the United States”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume XXX, number 15, Chicago, Ill., page 867:
text: The art of founding has now been studied from its metallurgical side sufficiently to allow us to make a mixture with the reasonable assurance that the requirements will be met (the molding conditions, as we may term them, being presupposedly correct) barring only two factors.
ref: 1904 January, Richard Moldenke, “A Problem in the Metallurgy of Cast Iron”, in The Iron and Steel Metallurgist and Metallographist, volume VII, number 1, page 27:
text: Yet we saw a woman’s footprints, presupposedly hers, in the clay of the avenue drain, which must have been made after enough rain had fallen to soften it.
ref: 1905 December 17, Broughton Brandenburg, “The Third Woman in the Case”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., fourth part, page 4:
text: Treating the matter as a question of tort liability, attention is focused on such practical and concrete problems as "the necessity of actual damage," "the reasonable or unreasonable character of the defendant's conduct in view of all the circumstances," and "the relative value of the interests involved," rather than on the limitations and qualifications of a categorical "right" or "servitude" presupposedly assumed and ill-defined.
ref: 1971 September 17, The Daily Record, volume 15, number 180, Salt Lake City, Utah, page five:
text: He presupposedly has the credentials of a scholar but it was scarcely the act of a gentleman.
ref: 1988 January 28, Thomas J. O’Donnell, “Insensitive remarks”, in Lincoln Journal, page 9:
text: What mattered to Hegel, and now Leach, is a presupposedly, historically necessary evolution in the structure of political power, entailing the creation of new classes of powerless victims to be sacrificed on the altar of abstract ideological concepts (i.e., “choice”).
ref: 1997 April 12, Richard Ring, “Secular, abortion-believers are the bloodiest lot”, in The Daily News, page A11:
glosses: In a presupposed manner.