PRESUME
\pɹɪzjˈuːm], \pɹɪzjˈuːm], \p_ɹ_ɪ_z_j_ˈuː_m]\
Definitions of PRESUME
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late"
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constitute reasonable evidence for; "A restaurant bill presumes the consumption of food"
By Princeton University
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take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.
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To take or suppose to be true, or entitled to belief, without examination or proof, or on the strength of probability; to take for granted; to infer; to suppose.
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To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far.
By Oddity Software
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To take for granted; suppose.
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To venture or risk without permission; behave with undue boldness.
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Presumer.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To take for granted; suppose.
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To venture on without previous permission; followed by infinitive.
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To assume as entitled to belief without proof.
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To behave with arrogance.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To take as true without examination or proof: to take for granted.
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To venture beyond what one has ground for: to act forwardly.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.