presuppose

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: pre=sup=pose

CIDE DICTIONARY

presuppose, v. t. [Pref. pre- + suppose: cf. F. présupposer.].

 To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.  [1913 Webster]
"Each [kind of knowledge] presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

presuppose, v.tr. (often foll. by that + clause)
1 assume beforehand.
2 imply.

Etymology

ME f. OF presupposer, after med.L praesupponere (as PRE-, SUPPOSE)

THESAURUS

presuppose

affect, allegorize, allude to, assume, be afraid, be predisposed, believe, bring, bring to mind, call for, comprise, conceive, conclude, conjecture, connote, consider, contain, daresay, deduce, deem, divine, dream, entail, expect, fancy, feel, forejudge, gather, go off half-cocked, grant, guess, hint, imagine, implicate, imply, import, infer, insinuate, intimate, involve, judge, judge beforehand, jump the gun, lead to, let, let be, mean, mean to say, opine, point indirectly to, posit, postulate, preconceive, preconclude, predecide, predetermine, prefigure, prejudge, premise, presume, presurmise, provisionally accept, reckon, repute, require, say, subsume, suggest, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take in, take it, take to be, think, understand

ROGET THESAURUS

presuppose

Misjudgment

VB misjudge, misestimate, misthink, misconjecture, misconceive, fly in the face of facts, miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute, overestimate, underestimate, prejudge, forejudge, presuppose, presume, prejudicate, dogmatize, have a bias, have only one idea, jurare in verba magistri, run away with the notion, jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion, leap to a conclusion, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions, look only at one side of the shield, view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles, not see beyond one's nose, dare pondus fumo, get the wrong sow by the ear, give a bias, give a twist, bias, warp, twist, prejudice, prepossess.

Supposition

VB suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine, theorize, presume, presurmise, presuppose, assume, fancy, wis, take it, give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted, imagine, put forth, propound, propose, start, put a case, submit, move, make a motion, hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture, allude to, suggest, hint, put it into one's head, suggest itself, run in the head, marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether.