Assumed
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Assume \As*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assumed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Assuming}.] [L. assumere; ad + sumere to take; sub +
emere to take, buy: cf. F. assumer. See {Redeem}.]
1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and
demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take
unjustly.
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Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
--Pope.
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The god assumed his native form again. --Pope.
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2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a
fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
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The consequences of assumed principles. --Whewell.
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3. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
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Ambition assuming the mask of religion. --Porteus.
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. --Shak.
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4. To receive or adopt.
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The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and
lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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Syn: To arrogate; usurp; appropriate.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "assumed":
accepted, accounted as, affected, alleged, apocryphal, artificial,
assumptive, bastard, bogus, brummagem, chanced, colorable, colored,
conjectured, counterfeit, counterfeited, deceptive, deemed,
delusory, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered,
ersatz, expected, expropriated, factitious, fake, faked, false,
falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, garbled, given, granted,
hinted, hypocritical, hypothetical, illegitimate, illusory,
imitation, implicated, implied, in hand, in process, in progress,
in the works, indicated, inferred, insubstantial, intimated,
involved, junky, made-up, make-believe, man-made, meant, mock,
on the anvil, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, postulated,
postulational, premised, presumed, presumptive, presupposed,
pretended, pseudo, put on, put-on, putative, quasi, queer, reputed,
seized, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called,
soi-disant, spurious, suggested, supposed, suppositional,
supposititious, suppositive, synthetic, taken, taken for granted,
theoretical, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic,
under way, understood, undertaken, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal,
warped
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