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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

putativus

, fr.

putare

putatum

, to reckon, suppose, adjust, prune, cleanse. See

, and cf.

Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed;

as, the

putative

father of a child

“His other putative (I dare not say feigned) friends.”

E. Hall.

Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a

putative

and usurped authority.

Jer. Taylor.

Adj.

[L. puto, to suppose.] Supposed; reputed; commonly thought or deemed; as the putative father of a child.