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) 2.0 [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}]