Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Taken up or used so as to deceive; pretended.
  • adjective Taken for granted; supposed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Supposed.
  • adjective Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of assume.
  • adjective Used in a manner intended to deceive; fictitious.
  • adjective Supposed or presumed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective adopted in order to deceive

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Examples

  • 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.

    Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852

  • Late in the century, with the eruption of the American and French revolutions, the phrase assumed democratic overtones.

    All Things To All People Jeffrey Collins 2011

  • Religion: the name assumed by the Hindu goddess Devi.

    15,000 Baby Names Bruce Lansky 2010

  • Religion: the name assumed by the Hindu goddess Devi.

    15,000 Baby Names Bruce Lansky 2010

  • Religion: the name assumed by the Hindu goddess Devi.

    15,000 Baby Names Bruce Lansky 2010

  • Religion: the name assumed by the Hindu goddess Devi.

    15,000 Baby Names 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.”

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE 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?

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • The Weber Minstrels is the title assumed by some gentlemen of this city, who intend to give concerts here and elsewhere.

    Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 Various

  • The title assumed by the Roman emperors after Julius Caesar.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

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