a. Metaph. Obs. [ad. mod.L. suppositālis, f. suppositum: see SUPPOSITUM and -AL.] Belonging or relating to a ‘supposite’: see SUPPOSITE sb. 1. So † Suppositality [mod.L. suppositālitās], the condition of being ‘supposital,’ or of being a ‘supposite’; † Suppositate v. trans., to be in the relation of a ‘supposite’ to; to be the subject of.
1656. Jeanes, Mixt. Schol. Div., 81. The second person [of the Trinity] … alone terminates the *suppositall, or personal dependance of the manhood.
1682. H. More, Annot. Glanvill’s Lux O., 238. Indiscerpibility maintains their supposital Unitie, as it does in all Spirits that have to do with Matter.
1545. Bale, Myst. Iniq., 34. Substancialite, deificalite,… modalite, *supposytalite, ypostaticalite.
1656. Jeanes, Fuln. Christ, 135. If the manhood of Christ subsist any manner of way, then it is [? in] a person, or suppositum: for what is subsistence here, but suppositality, and therefore it, and suppositum are reciprocated.
a. 1670. South, Serm. Col. ii. 2 (1727), IV. 318. No Wonder therefore, if these Men … have by their Modalities, Suppositalities, Circumincessions, and twenty such … Chimeras, so misrepresented this … Article of the Trinity to Mens’ Reason, as to bring them … at length to deny it.
1711. trans. Werenfels’ Logomachys, 101. Then follow … your greater and lesser Realitys, modal Entitys,… Then the States, Amplications, Principles of Individuation, Suppositalitys,… and whole cartloads of Qualitys.
1627. J. Doughty, Serm. Div. Myst. (1628), 12. Those queries, whither God be materia prima, and, whither Christs divinitie might not *suppositate a fly.
1656. Jeanes, Fuln. Christ, 154. There is an ability in the person of the word, to suppositate, and assume the manhood.
