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A Priori :: A priori () Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori..

Simulate :: Simulate (v. t.) To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign..

Allonym :: Allonym (n.) The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.

Imbody :: Imbody (v. i.) To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody.

Compare :: Compare (v. i.) To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.

Transmutation :: Transmutation (n.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism..

Shoulder :: Shoulder (v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.

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..

Put :: Put (v. t.) To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case..

Pretension :: Pretension (n.) A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship..

Communication :: Communication (n.) A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you..

Regulative :: Regulative (a.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty..

Languish :: Languish (v. i.) To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy..

Engender :: Engender (v. i.) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

Affect :: Affect (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance..

Set :: Set (v. t.) To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end..

Peer :: Peer (v. t.) To be, or to assume to be, equal..

Crystallize :: Crystallize (v. t.) To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form..

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