What is the meaning of hypothecate?

Pledge without delivery or title of possession.
To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds.
- usage: "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
- synonyms: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, suppose

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