Putative

a.

1.

Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child. Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurped authority. - Jer. Taylor.

Adj.

1.

putative - commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of birth" Synonyms: purported, reputed, supposed

PUTATIVE. Reputed to be that which is not. The word is frequently used, as putative father, (q.v.) putative marriage, putative wife, and the like. And Toullier, tome 7, n. 29, uses the words putative owner, proprietare putatif. Lord Kames uses the same expression. Princ. of Eq. 391.

accountable, accounted as, alleged, ascribable, assignable, assumed, assumptive, attributable, attributed, charged, conjectural, conjectured, credited, deemed, derivable from, derivational, derivative, due, explicable, given, granted, hypothetical, imputable, imputed, inferred, owing, postulated, postulational, premised, presumed, presumptive, referable, referred to, reputed, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, taken for granted, traceable, understood

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