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e quality or state of being specious; speciousness. Professions built so largely on speciosity, instead of performance. Carlyle.

The state of having, or being full of, ears like corn. [R.] Bailey.

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. [R.]

The quality or state of being spissated; as, the spissitude of coagulated blood, or of any coagulum. Arbuthnot.

That which is deposited beneath something else.

Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry.

Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive. -- Su`per*sen"si*tive*ness, n.

The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite. [Obs.] Dr. R. Clerke.

e; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence. This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is imposible to be false. Tillotson. He means are in supposition. Shak.

Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed. South.

ng else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon.

Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Hammond.

An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.

A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.

Tediousness. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness. Burton.

Inflammation of a tendon.