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Definition: PRESUPPOSED |
PRESUPPOSEDImperative & past participle1. Of Presuppose |
Date "PRESUPPOSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
Crosswords: PRESUPPOSED |
| Etymologies containing "PRESUPPOSED": Presuppose. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | German Socialism forgot, in the nick of time, that the French criticism, whose silly echo it was, presupposed the existence of modern bourgeois society, with its corresponding economic conditions of existence, and the political constitution adapted thereto, the very things whose attainment was the object of the pending struggle in Germany. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "PRESUPPOSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 51.47% of the time. "PRESUPPOSED" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 51.47% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 39.71% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.82% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 68 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PRESUPPOSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | مفترض (assumed, given, presumed, supposed). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 预料 (Presuppose, Presupposing). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | setzte voraus (premised). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | esupposedpray pressuposto (presupposition). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-o-p-p-p-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: presuppose, superposed. | |
-2 letters: oppressed, superpose. | |
-3 letters: deposers, espoused, espouser, purposed, purposes, repousse, speedups, supposed, supposer. | |
-4 letters: deposer, deposes, depress, dousers, espouse, oppress, peppers, perdues, perused, peruses, poppers, poseurs, prepped, pressed, propped, pseudos, purpose, reposed, reposes, speedos, speedup, spoused, supered, suppers, suppose, upprops. | |
-5 letters: depose, dopers, dosers, dosser, douser, douses, drupes, druses, dupers, duress, epodes, eposes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 45 53 55 50 50 4F 53 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . ... ..- .--. .--. --- ... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010101 01010000 01010000 01001111 01010011 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R E S U P P O S E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0045 0053 0055 0050 0050 004F 0053 0045 0044 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5052395355505049533938 |
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