supporter (suporter)

[ Worthy supporters of such a reigning impiety. South . The merchants. were averse to this emba y; but the Jesuits and Mail let were the avowed supporters of it, and they had with them the authority of the king. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 502. (6) An adherent; a partizan: as, a supporter of a candidate or of a faction. The supporters of the crown are placed too near it to be exempted from the storm which was breaking over it. Dryden, Ded. of Plutarch's Lives. (c) One who accompanies a leader on some public occasion. (d) A sustainer; a comforter. The saints have a companion and supporter in all their miseries. South . 2. That which supports or upholds; that on which anything rests; a support; a prop. A building set upon supporters . Mortimer . Specifically- (a) In ship - building , a knee placed under the cat-head; also, same as bibb . (b) In her., the representation of a living creature accompanying the escutcheon and either holding it up or standing beside it as if to keep or guard it. In modern times supporters are usually two for each escutcheon, and are more commonly in pairs, the two of each pair being either exactly alike or simply reversed; it often happens, however, that they are quite different, as the Indian and sailor supporting the shield of New York, or the lion and unicorn supporting the royal shield of Great Britain. In medieval decorative art there was often one supporter, as an angel, who actually held the shield, standing behind it. Anal supporter. See anal. supportfult (su-port'fül), a. [ Vpon th' Eolian gods support full wings, With che are full shouts, they parted from the shore. Mir. for Mags ., p. 821. supporting (su-por'ting), p . a . Capable of giving or permitting support: as, a supporting column of troops. Up to this time my troops had been kept in supporting distances of each other, as far as the nature of the country would admit. U. S. Grant , Personal Memoirs, I. 501. supportive (su-põr'tiv), a . [ support + -ive .] Supporting; sustaining. [Rare.] The collapse of supportive ti ue beneath. Amer . Jour. Psychol., I. 97. supportle (su-port'les), a . [ support + -le .] Having no support. supportmentt (su-port'ment), n . [ support + -ment.] Support; aid. Prelaty in her fleshy supportments. Milton , Church-Government, ii. 3. supportre (su-por'tres), n . [ supporter + -e .] A female supporter. Mas singer . supposable (su-po'za-bl), a . [= F. supposable ; suppose + -able .] Capable of being supposed; involving no absurdity, and not meaningle . Any supposable influence of climate. Trans. Amer . Philol . A . , XVI. 65. 2. Sufficiently probable to be admitted problematically. supposably (su-pō'za-bli), ade. In a supposable degree or way; as may be supposed or presumed. Conditions affecting two celestial objects which are supposably near enough to be influenced alike. Science , I. 49. supposal (su-põʻzal), n. [ suppose + -al .] The IMG:content-2526.png:[blocks in formation] ML. suppose, Let it not be supposed that principles and opinions always go together, any more than sons are always like their parents. Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 184. 2. To make a hypothesis; formulate a propоsition without reference to its being true or false, with a view of tracing out its consequences. To suppose in this sense is not to imagine merely, since it is an act of abstract thought, and many things can be supposed (as the imaginary points of the geometricians) which cannot be imagined; indeed, anything can be supposed to which we can attach a definite meaning-that is, which we can imagine in every feature to become a matter of practical interest - and which involves no contradiction. Moreover, to suppose is to set up a proposition in order to trace its consequences, while imagining involves no such ulterior purpose. More rancorous spite, more furious raging broils, Than yet can be imagined or supposed . Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 1. 186. IMG:content-2527.png:[blocks in formation] When we have as great a urance that a thing is as we could po ibly [have] supposing it were, we ought not to doubt of its existence. Til lots on. 3. To a ume as true without reflection; presume; opine; believe. The kynge ansuerde all in laughinge, as that soposed well it was Merlin. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 623. Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead. 2 Sam. xiii. 32. 4. To imply; involve as a further proposition or consequence; proceed from, as from a hypothesis. The system of living contrived by me was unreasonable and unjust, because it supposed a perpetuity of youth, health, and vigour. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, iii. 10. This supposeth something without evident ground. Sir M. Hale . 5t. To put, as one thing by fraud in the place of another. =Syn. 3. Expect, Suppose (see expect, v. t.), conclude, judge, apprehend. II. in trans. To make or form a supposition; think; imagine. To that contre I rede we take the waye, ffor ther we may not fayle of good seruice, As ye suppose , tell me what ye seye. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), L. 627. Acts ii. 15. For these are not drunken, as ye suppose . suppose (su-poz'), n. [ suppose , v .] Supposition; presumption; conjecture; opinion. Nor, princes, is it matter new to us That we come short of our suppose so far That after seven years' siege yet Troy walls stand. Shak ., T. and C., i. 3. 11. Those confounded Mou ul merchants! Their supposes always come to pa . Marryat , Pacha of Many Tales, The Water-Carrier. supposed (su-pozd'), p . a . Regarded or received as true; imagined; believed. Much was said about the supposed vacancy of the throne by the abdication of James. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., i. Supposed ba , in music. See ba 3. supposedly (su-po'zed-li), adv. As may be supposed; by supposition; presumably. A triumphal arch, supposedly of the period of Marcus Aurelius. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 232.