put case

put case

1. (obsolete) To take as a hypothesis; to suppose (that).
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 3:

     But put case they continue; thou art not so poor as thou wast born […]

   • Bishop Hall

     Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live.

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