suppos1tor

[ Lat.sup posit us, pa. par. of suppono to lay under.] 1. An aid (?), an inferior (?). "Mountebanks, empirics, quack-salvers, mineralists, wizards, alchymists, cast apothecaries, old wives and bar. bers, are all suppositors to the right worshipful doctor, as I take it."-Fora. Lover's Melancholy, i. 2. 2. A suppository. "Clysters, suppositors , and a barbarous pothecary's bill." - Dryden : Sir Martin Marr - all , iv.