Hypothetic

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Founded on or characterized by a hypothesis; supposititious; conjectural.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon.
  • adjective. baptism administered to persons in respect to whom it is doubtful whether they have or have not been baptized before.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. based on hypothesis or theory; hypothetical
  • adjective. existing as an abstract concept rather than a concrete reality
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  • adjective. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
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    "Hence their system was termed hypothetic universalism."
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