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† deˈsume, v. Obs.
[ad. L. dēsūm-ĕre to take from a mass, pick out, cull, f. de- 2 + sūmĕre to take.]
trans. To take or obtain (from some source); to derive, borrow, deduce.
1564Haward Eutropius To Rdr. 7 A language more rife and familiare than those from whence he [Tully] desumed them. 1623Hart Arraignm. Ur. Ep. to Rdr. A ij, Some things desumed from mine owne experimentall knowledge. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xiv. 140 Nor is this Salamanders wooll desumed from any Animal, but a Minerall substance. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece ii. xiii. (1715) 304 From this Species, those, whose profession it was to interpret Dreams, have desumed their Names. |