Also 6–7 -ary. [ad. late L. suppositōrius (see prec.).]
† 1. Used as, or pertaining to, a suppository. Obs.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 145/2. Take Hernes greace,… as bigge as a hasellnutte, administre the same from vnder, like a suppositorye pille.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 256. Giue it the patient by svppository meanes for the bloody Flix.
† 2. = SUPPOSITITIOUS 1. Obs.
1641. Earl Monm., trans. Biondi’s Civil Wars, V. 142. The robberies, which with suppository beards were done upon the high wayes by his Souldiers.
3. = SUPPOSITIONAL. Now rare.
1644. G. Plattes, in Hartlib, Legacy (1655), 236. Unlesse I should have set a suppository value, upon part of it.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 107. Whether … a bare hypothesis or sole suppositary argument, may not … with the same facility … be denyed, as it is affirmed?
1672. Penn, Spir. Truth Vind., 49. I am at a stand what he intends with his suppository Introduction.
1780. M. Madan, Thelyphthora, I. 85. The whole passage is suppository or hypothetical.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 15 June, 10/1. These recent suppository interviews.
So † Suppositorily adv., as a suppository.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, clxxii. 61 b. Confecte this togyther with the whyte of an egge … and suppositaryly use it.
