Assumed

Word ASSUMED
Character 7
Hyphenation as sumed
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Assumed"

What do we mean by assumed?

Taken up or used so as to deceive; pretended. adjective

Taken for granted; supposed. adjective

Supposed. adjective

Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe. adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of assume. verb

Used in a manner intended to deceive; fictitious. adjective

Supposed or presumed. adjective

Adopted in order to deceive adjective

To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof

To take on a position, duty or form

To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate

To receive, adopt (a person)

To adopt (an idea or cause)

Synonyms and Antonyms for Assumed

The word "assumed" in example sentences

A distinction of the canonists has been assumed by those who have used the word with most precision -- _assumed_, though it is by no means a simple and indisputable one. ❋ Unknown (1852)

Late in the century, with the eruption of the American and French revolutions, the phrase assumed democratic overtones. ❋ Jeffrey Collins (2011)

Religion: the name assumed by the Hindu goddess Devi. ❋ Bruce Lansky (2010)

In the later “Gespräch über die Poesie” (1800), however, the term assumed again its concrete historical meaning: Shakespeare is characterized as laying the foundation of romantic drama and the romantic is found also in Cervantes, in Italian poetry, “in the age of chivalry, love, and fairy tales, whence the thing and the word are de - rived.” ❋ REN (1968)

If the Musæ Exulantes, [The title assumed by them, in the preface to the Latin translation of Cato.] in the swamps of Bruges, could produce an elegant and nervous translation of Cato, will their notes be less strong or less sweet in their native land? ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

The Weber Minstrels is the title assumed by some gentlemen of this city, who intend to give concerts here and elsewhere. ❋ Various (N/A)

The title assumed by the Roman emperors after Julius Caesar. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

A second pair of gates suggested the idea that it was a prison into which we were being carried; but when we came in sight of a large tablet, with the inscription "_Ming chï fu mu_" (the father and mother of the people), we felt that we had been conveyed to the right place; this being the title assumed by the mandarins. ❋ James Hudson Taylor (1868)

Christos, the title assumed by the Johannite Pontiffs, 817-u. ❋ Albert Pike (1850)

But we will let the knight of Malta, for such was the title assumed by the ruffler, tell his own story in his own way hereafter; contenting ourselves with the moral precepts we have already deduced from it. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

King of the Romans -- the title assumed by the emperor elect. ❋ Unknown (1841)

But as the people in the pictures started coming forward, the title assumed a new meaning, says Jude Richter, a historian at the museum's Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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