Presuppose

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  • transitive verb. To believe or suppose in advance.
  • transitive verb. To require or involve necessarily as an antecedent condition.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To suppose beforehand; take for granted in advance of actual knowledge or experience.
  • To assume beforehand; require or imply as an antecedent condition; necessitate the prior assumption of.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. require as a necessary antecedent or precondition
  • verb. take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand
  • Word Usage
    "That said, such calls presuppose that Obama will be included in the "need to know" loop of any hardcore evidence of aliens contact ... and I very much doubt he will."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    imply  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bose  Brose  Goes  Joes  Jos  
    Synonym
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    verb-form