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assumed, ppl. a.|əˈsjuːmd|
[f. prec. vb. + -ed.]
1. Taken to or upon oneself; appropriated; usurped.
1624Gataker Transubst. 189 Angels in assumed bodies can [not] be wounded. 1794Paley Evid. ii. vi. §22 He was sitting in judgement in that assumed capacity.
2. Pretended, ‘put on.’
1813Scott Rokeby i. xiv, Assumed despondence bent his head. 1849P. Cunningham Handbk. Lond. (1850) 547 Mendicants who live on assumed sores.
3. Taken for granted, adopted as a basis of reasoning.
1810Bentham Packing (1821) 132 The assumed root ascribed to the corruption was nothing worse than casual irregularity. 1852McCulloch Taxation i. iv. 124 The answer to the question..depends materially on the assumed rate of interest. |