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assume

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See also:assumé

English

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Etymology

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FromLatinassūmō(“accept, take”), fromad-(“to, towards, at”) +sūmō(“take up, assume”).

Pronunciation

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(UK, US, Canada)IPA^(key): /əˈsjuːm/
- Audio(UK): (file)
(UK, yod-coalescence)IPA^(key): /əˈʃuːm/
(US, Canada, yod-dropping)IPA^(key): /əˈsuːm/
- Audio(US): (file)
(Nigeria)IPA^(key): /əˈzuːm/
Rhymes:-uːm

Verb

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assume (third-person singular simple presentassumes,present participleassuming,simple past and past participleassumed)

Toauthenticate by means ofbelief; tosurmise; tosuppose to betrue, especially withoutproof
Weassume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.
- 1967, Bertil Hedevind,The Dialect of Dentdale in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Uppsala: Appelbergs Boktryckeri AB,§ 4.8,page98:
  Levelling of ME /irC/ and /urC/, which Ortonassumes for the whole of the North (S. Durham §§411-13), has not taken place in Dent and S.We, where ME /urC/ remains (4:46).
- 2013 June 14,Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 1, page18:
  Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps weassume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
- For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:assume.
Totake on aposition,duty or form
Mr. Jones willassume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found.
- 1715–1720,Homer, translated byAlexander Pope, “Book I”, inThe Iliad of Homer, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, forBernard Lintott […],→OCLC:
  Trembling they stand while Joveassumes the throne.
- 1892,Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC:
  Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is justassuming the robes of respectability:[…] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
- 1967,Barbara Sleigh,Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published1993,→ISBN, page96:
  His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his faceassumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
- 2012 August 5,Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name):
  So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who hasassumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
- For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:assume.
To adopt afeigned quality ormanner; to claim without right; toarrogate
Heassumed an air of indifference.
- c.1599–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iv]:
  Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
- a. 1809,Beilby Porteus,sermon:
  ambitionassuming the mask of religion.
- For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:assume.
Toreceive,adopt (a person)
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as1820),Walter Scott,Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […],→OCLC:
  The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank,assumed into that honorable company.
Toadopt (anidea orcause)