A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1600, 1651
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Suppositi(o)us, adj. [e.m.E. suppositious (1624), ? shortened form of supposititious Suppositicious adj., or ? f. Suppositio(u)n n.] a. = Suppositicious adj. b. Of a person: Deceitful, not to be believed. —a. 1651 Laing MSS 261.
Maters of publict faith and saife conduits ar of ane most absolut natur and farthest distant from suppositious anulifications, conditions, [etc.] —b. 1600 Criminal Trials II 252.
Some of yow thinks that he is bot ane suppositius man, and that his depositioun is rather a policie then any veritie
