pre-noun adjectival
Literary pre-noun adjectival used in the pattern ...とおぼしき to mean 'seeming to be ...' or 'apparently ...'. Often found in written or formal contexts.
See also: 思しい
A person who appeared to be him showed up at the venue.
Fingerprints were detected at the location that seemed to be the crime scene.
Rarely used kanji form; 思しき is preferred.
Classical pre-noun form of the adjective 思しい (おぼしい), from the verb 思ふ (おもふ, modern 思う). The form 思しき is fossilized in modern literary usage.