| 1. | This penalty of being jiggered was a favorite supposititious case of his. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | I want you, I said, by way of parallel, to imagine a supposititious son who is brought up in great wealth he is one of a great and numerous family, and has many flatterers. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 3. | The danger may be illustrated by a parallel case--Imagine a person who has been brought up in wealth and luxury amid a crowd of flatterers, and who is suddenly informed that he is a supposititious son. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 4. | Their condition is ingeniously compared by him to that of a supposititious son, who has made the discovery that his reputed parents are not his real ones, and, in consequence, they have lost their authority over him. - from The Republic by Plato |