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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for putative:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

putative
    adj 1: purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on
           inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father";
           "the putative author of the book"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Putative \Pu"ta*tive\, a. [L. putativus, fr. putare, putatum, to
   reckon, suppose, adjust, prune, cleanse. See Pure, and cf.
   Amputate, Compute, Dispute, Impute.]
   Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the
   putative father of a child. "His other putative (I dare not
   say feigned) friends." --E. Hall.
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         Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or
         pious, became customary, and then came for reverence
         into a putative and usurped authority.   --Jer. Taylor.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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.

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