supposititiously

His supposititiously heroic death had surrounded him with a halo of romance dear to the colonel's heart; but his sudden reappearance in the land of the living, with a warrant out for his arrest, and Dora's happiness in the balance, excited a growing anger.

The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley

The character of their discussions is well, although supposititiously, expressed by Gerald Massey, in his work entitled,

Astral Worship J. H. Hill

The microscope -- and not only that the supposititiously elementary was seen to be of infinite diversity, but that in its protoplasmic life there were new orders of beings.

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

This was a heresy he could not allow even supposititiously.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

She felt like one of those intelligent persons who pull the triggers of supposititiously unloaded guns.

The Prodigal Father 1907

And that no one be allowed to transgress the aforesaid canons, or to receive other canons besides them, supposititiously set forth by some who have attempted to make a traffic of the truth.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

Isaac, the last of the old parsimonious school, pushed on by his avaricious wife, cheats his brother and seizes the inheritance of his nephew, who is supposititiously killed by accident in the dark.

Bones in London Edgar Wallace 1903

"I tell you what I think," said Thaddeus one evening, after a particularly flagrant breach on Jane's part, involving a streak of cranberry sauce across a supposititiously clean plate: "you won't discharge her, Bess, and I won't; suppose we send for Mr. Burke, and get him to do it."

Paste Jewels John Kendrick Bangs 1892

It was in no way contingent on Adam's thought, but supposititiously self-created.

Retrospection and Introspection Mary Baker Eddy 1865

Accordingly, with a view to give her favourite all worldly advantages, she adroitly changed the children; and, while she was still kind and motherly to the little Tracy-Begum, she had the satisfaction to see her pet supposititiously brought up in all the splendours of an Eastern court.

The Twins A Domestic Novel Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849