Putative \Pu"ta*tive\, a. [L. putativus, fr. putare, putatum, to
reckon, suppose, adjust, prune, cleanse. See Pure, and cf.
Amputate, Compute, Dispute, Impute.]
Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the
putative father of a child. "His other putative (I dare not
say feigned) friends." --E. Hall.
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Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or
pious, became customary, and then came for reverence
into a putative and usurped authority. --Jer. Taylor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
putative
adj : commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive
grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the
reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the
supposed date of birth" [syn: putative(a), purported(a),
reputed(a), supposed(a)]
WordNet (r) 2.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "putative":
accountable, accounted as, alleged, ascribable, assignable,
assumed, assumptive, attributable, attributed, charged,
conjectural, conjectured, credited, deemed, derivable from,
derivational, derivative, due, explicable, given, granted,
hypothetical, imputable, imputed, inferred, owing, postulated,
postulational, premised, presumed, presumptive, referable,
referred to, reputed, supposed, suppositional, supposititious,
suppositive, suppository, taken for granted, traceable,
understood
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
PUTATIVE. Reputed to be that which is not. The word is frequently used, as
putative father, (q.v.) putative marriage, putative wife, and the like. And
Toullier, tome 7, n. 29, uses the words putative owner, proprietare putatif.
Lord Kames uses the same expression. Princ. of Eq. 391.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
purported(a), putative(a), reputed(a), supposed(a)
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