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putative (adjective)
1. Generally believed to be, or regarded, as being something: "He was considered to be the putative father of the child."
2. Believed to exist now or to have existed at some other time.
This entry is located in the following unit: put-, puta-, -pute, -puter, -puting, -putate, -putation, -putative (page 6)
(Latin: putatus past participle of putare: to think over, consider, reckon, count; to trim, prune, lop, cut, clean, clear, unmixed)