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verb

Assume v. t. (past & past part. assumed; pres. part. assuming)

1.

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. "Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne." "The god assumed his native form again."

2.

To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively. "The consequences of assumed principles."

3.

To pretend to possess; to take in appearance. "Ambition assuming the mask of religion." "Assume a virtue, if you have it not."

4.

To receive or adopt. "The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company."

Synonyms: To arrogate; usurp; appropriate.

Assume v. i.

1.

To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.

2.

(Law) To undertake, as by a promise.

adjective

Assumed adj.

1.

Supposed.

2.

Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

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Etymology of 'Assumed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Assumed" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Egypt,—but not a word about actual circumstances of the Lebanon, or about his plans for restoring the palace to more than its former splendour, which he afterwards carried out. This was all very agreeable, but a curious fit of policy assumed at the time rendered my host to some degree apparently ...

— Byeways in Palestine • James Finn

... years old when he assumed his new position. His quick elevation from an obscure parish to one of the highest offices within the church might well have strained the abilities of an older and more experienced man. But there can be no doubt that ...

— Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark • Jens Christian Aaberg

... would he have said now!] "How disheartening it is, that in affairs spiritual or temporal mankind will not begin at the beginning, but will begin with assumptions. Could one believe without actual experience of the fact, that it would be assumed by hundreds of thousands of pestilent boobies, pandered to by politicians, that the Established Church in Ireland has stood between the kingdom and Popery, when as a crying grievance ...

— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... generally assumed when Crabbe's Village appeared, that it was of the nature of a rejoinder to Goldsmith's poem, and the fact that Crabbe quotes a line from The Deserted Village, "Passing rich on forty pounds a year," in his own description of the village parson, might seem to ...

— Crabbe, (George) - English Men of Letters Series • Alfred Ainger

... they had thus assumed the leadership of the State, they had the other offices given to such as were well disposed toward them and prevented Marcus Cato from being appointed praetor. They suspected that he would not submit to their regime and were unwilling to add any legal power to his outspoken opposition. The nomination ...

— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio

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