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assumable
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Word definitions for assumable in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1780 ( re-assumable is from 1724), from assume + -able . Related: Assumably ; assumability .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assumable \As*sum"a*ble\, a. That may be assumed.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of being assumed, or taken to be true. 2 Capable of being assumed, or taken on.
Usage examples of assumable.
Whether Human Nature Was More Assumable by the Son of God Than Any Other Nature?
A thing is said to be assumable as being capable of being assumed by a Divine Person, and this capability cannot be taken with reference to the natural passive power, which does not extend to what transcends the natural order, as the personal union of a creature with God transcends it.
Hence it follows that a thing is said to be assumable according to some fitness for such a union.
Therefore a creature is said to be not assumable, not as if we withdrew anything from the power of God, but in order to show the condition of the creature, which has no capability for this.
Again, it was reasonable to mention flesh, which, as being farther away from the Word, was less assumable, as it would seem.
For the flesh would not have been assumable, except by its relation to the rational soul, through which it becomes human flesh.
The human flesh is assumable by the Word on account of the order which it has to the rational soul as to its proper form.