Crossword clues for assumed
assumed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
--Pope.The god assumed his native form again.
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To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
The consequences of assumed principles.
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To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
Ambition assuming the mask of religion.
--Porteus.Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
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To receive or adopt.
The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
--Sir W. Scott.Syn: To arrogate; usurp; appropriate.
Assumed \As*sumed"\, a.
Supposed.
Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.
Wiktionary
used in a manner intended to deceive; fictitious. v
(en-past of: assume)
WordNet
adj. accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for granted" [syn: assumptive, taken for granted(p)]
taken as your right without justification; "was hearing evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states" [syn: arrogated]
adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]
Usage examples of "assumed".
I was the one who assumed the bags for the Birth Center ambulance were stored in their warehouse.
Henry was much pleased with the election, the pope, who thought that prelate too much attached to the crown, assumed the power of annulling his election.
Congress appropriated money to pay counsel on both sides of the argument, the Court passed on the constitutionality of the carriage tax and sustained it as valid, and in so doing tacitly assumed that it had the power to review Congressional acts.
Reviewers who could see no structure in the book assumed its author must have sacrificed architectonic considerations for local pleasures.
Laedo assumed its orbital speed was controlled artificially, rather than dictated by the equally artificial gravity of its primary.
The most active and successful of the Plebeians accumulated wealth, aspired to honors, deserved triumphs, contracted alliances, and, after some generations, assumed the pride of ancient nobility.
One of these regulations was, that no man coming into any given district or county within the control assumed by the associating parties, should be allowed to work without previously paying five pounds sterling, to be applied to the funds of the association.
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.
It was long distance, and he assumed the city of Angustias would bill him for it.
He had assumed that the return of the apprentice would mean the end of his job, and there was a resignation about his manner that day and the next.
I had assumed, arrogantly I suppose, that she would be overcome with gratitude.
By the strained silence he shared from his seat, she assumed he was as worried asshe about the prospect.
Secondly, because to a common nature can only be attributed common and universal operations, according to which man neither merits nor demerits, whereas, on the contrary, the assumption took place in order that the Son of God, having assumed our nature, might merit for us.
But there is no kind of wrong done to God if they are attributed to Him in His assumed nature.
Gerald knew of the agency of the real Barnard, though he did not know that I had assumed the name of that person.