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Hypothetic   Listen
adjective
Hypothetical, Hypothetic  adj.  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. "Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us."
Hypothetical baptism (Ch. of Eng.), baptism administered to persons in respect to whom it is doubtful whether they have or have not been baptized before.






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"Hypothetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the reasoning that we have just given at length, we have finally found the means by which the hypothetic bead was to be put in place. A little beyond the curves, a very small but perfectly conspicuous dot is engraved—the intersection of two lines of construction that it was doubtless desired to efface, but the scarcely visible trace of which subsists. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 • Various



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