思おぼしき

pre-noun adjectival

seeming; apparent; apparently

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

• 彼かれとおぼしき人じん物ぶつが会かい場じょうに現あらわれた。

  A person who appeared to be him showed up at the venue.

• 犯はん行こう現げん場ばとおぼしき場ば所しょから指し紋もんが検けん出しゅつされた。

  Fingerprints were detected at the location that seemed to be the crime scene.