Putative adj. Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child. "His other putative (I dare not say feigned) friends.""Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurped authority."
... concerns us hardly at all. But some have gone even further than has been yet hinted in the exaltation of Chrestien. They have discovered in him—"him-by-himself-him"—as the author of his actual extant works and not as putative author of the real Arthuriad, not merely a pattern example of the court trouvere—as much as this, or nearly as much, has been admitted here—but almost the inventor of romance and even of something very like ... — A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
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