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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Assumed \As*sumed"\, a. 1. Supposed. 2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as an assumed character. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}.] 1. 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 --Pope. 2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively. The consequences of assumed principles. --Whewell. 3. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance. Ambition assuming the mask of religion. --Porteus. Assume a virtue, if you have it not --Shak. 4. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: assumed adj 1: 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)}] 2: 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}] 3: 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}]
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