Definition of assume

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Assume (v. t.) To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly..

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Assume :: Assume (v. t.) To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly..
Postulate :: Postulate (v. t.) To take without express consent; to assume.
Demonstration :: Demonstration (n.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions..
Conjugate :: Conjugate (v. t.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons..
Beg :: Beg (v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.
Postulate :: Postulate (n.) Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence..
Person :: Person (n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character..
Posture :: Posture (v. i.) To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose..
Reassume :: Reassume (v. t.) To assume again or anew; to resume.
Assumable :: Assumable (a.) That may be assumed.
Presume :: Presume (v. i.) To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far..
Cheese :: Cheese (n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
Decubitus :: Decubitus (n.) An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus..
Feint :: Feint (a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
Recline :: Recline (v. i.) To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch..
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
Face :: Face (n.) Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired..
Engender :: Engender (v. i.) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
Suppose :: Suppose (v. t.) To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?.
Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
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