"put case" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts case",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting case",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put case",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put case",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> case"
      },
      "expansion": "put case (third-person singular simple present puts case, present participle putting case, simple past and past participle put case)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:",
          "text": "But put case they continue; thou art not so poor as thou wast born […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead:",
          "text": "Put case that the soul after the departure from the body may live.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1868-1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book Put case a person wrongs me past dispute",
          "text": "If my legitimate vengeance be a blow,\nMistrusting my bare arm can deal that blow,\nI claim co-operation of a stick"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take as a hypothesis; to suppose (that)."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_case-en-verb-LdWjEStk",
      "links": [
        [
          "suppose",
          "suppose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, idiomatic) To take as a hypothesis; to suppose (that)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put case"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts case",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting case",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put case",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put case",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> case"
      },
      "expansion": "put case (third-person singular simple present puts case, present participle putting case, simple past and past participle put case)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:",
          "text": "But put case they continue; thou art not so poor as thou wast born […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead:",
          "text": "Put case that the soul after the departure from the body may live.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1868-1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book Put case a person wrongs me past dispute",
          "text": "If my legitimate vengeance be a blow,\nMistrusting my bare arm can deal that blow,\nI claim co-operation of a stick"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take as a hypothesis; to suppose (that)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "suppose",
          "suppose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, idiomatic) To take as a hypothesis; to suppose (that)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put case"
}