supposititious

He believed, like the others, that we were discussing a supposititious case."

Anyhow, I think it's a fool stunt, even if it is only supposititious.

Rosa appeared to consider what she would do if the awkward supposititious case were hers.

Thus, for example, we discover in all men a disposition to look with reverence upon superiority, whether real or supposititious.

This is now in the British Library's category of "doubtful and supposititious works".

This penalty of being jiggered was a favourite supposititious case of his.

This was a common concern in the classical period as there were dealers in supposititious children who would provide them for a fee.

The modern epic is, of the supposititious ancient model, but an inconsiderate and blindfold imitation.

The problem is not supposititious.

Hardly worth while to come so far, though; any other supposititious place would have answered just as well--hey?"

But the supposititious [sic] man has seen other cities and all the thousand component elements that go to make them.

As far as I am concerned, there is no question of its being momentary or supposititious or anything of that kind.

Supposititious children are fraudulent offspring.

When Mr. Mee is not being derivative or slipshod, he is supposititious.

Did I understand you to say it was your opinion that the supposititious candle was lighted at about eight o'clock yesterday evening?"

--and I am too honest to worship an unproved and merely supposititious identity!"

On the contrary he attended the court and refused any credence to the report that the king's newborn son, James, Prince of Wales, was supposititious.

In discussing a supposititious case with Akiva, he once exclaimed, "Wilt thou indeed decree death by fire on the strength of a single letter?"

The supposititious bagpipe gave an uncertain, ominous howl, and he flung it down, and started back with a ludicrous expression of alarm.

Some charged that the boy was "supposititious", having been secretly smuggled into the Queen's room in a bed-warming pan as a substitute for her stillborn baby.

But by and by I evolved an idea--I would wake my brother and probe him with a supposititious case.

Catherine had read too much not to be perfectly aware of the ease with which a waxen figure might be introduced, and a supposititious funeral carried on.

I saw no harm in taking part in it, especially as I knew nothing of the supposititious purpose of the cruise until just before we reached Honolulu.

"You see, it was just because I knew I shouldn't get a genuine opinion otherwise, that I pretended it was a supposititious case."

Threatened by a Catholic dynasty, several influential Protestants claimed the child was "supposititious" and had been smuggled into the Queen's bedchamber in a warming pan.