n. [ L. absumptio. See Absume. ] Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., he undertook, pret. of L. assumere. See Assume. ] (Law) (a) A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied. (b) An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. assumptus, p. p. of assumere. See Assume. ] To take up; to elevate; to assume. [ Obs. ] Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. assumptum, p. p. neut. of assumere. ] That which is assumed; an assumption. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sun of all your assumpts is this. Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. assumpcioun a taking up into heaven, L. assumptio a taking, fr. assumere: cf. F. assomption. See Assume. ] 1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assumption of authority. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim. [ 1913 Webster ]

This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable assumption that the soul sleeps from the period of death to the resurrection of the body. Thodey. [ 1913 Webster ]

That calm assumption of the virtues. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath. & Greek Churches) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. assumptivus, fr. assumptus, fr. assumere. ] Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims. -- As*sump"tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Assumptive arms (Her.), originally, arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College. Percy Smith. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption. ] 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Syn. -- Decline; waste; decay. See Decline. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. consomptif. ] 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

It [ prayer ] is not consumptive or our time. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

A long consumptive war. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a way tending to or indication consumption. Beddoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inconsumptibilis. ] Inconsumable. [ Obs. ] Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., he did not undertake. ] (Law) The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praesumptio: cf. F. présomption, OF. also presumpcion. See Presume. ] 1. The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the presumption is that an event has taken place. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is presumed or assumed; that which is supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable but not conclusive. “In contradiction to these very plausible presumptions.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward, overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness; arrogance; effrontery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy son I killed for his presumption. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had the presumption to dedicate to you a very unfinished piece. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conclusive presumption. See under Conclusive. --
Presumption of fact (Law), an argument of a fact from a fact; an inference as to the existence of one fact not certainly known, from the existence of some other fact known or proved, founded on a previous experience of their connection; supposition of the truth or real existence of something, without direct or positive proof of the fact, but grounded on circumstantial or probable evidence which entitles it to belief. Burrill. Best. Wharton. --
Presumption of law (Law), a postulate applied in advance to all cases of a particular class; e. g., the presumption of innocence and of regularity of records. Such a presumption is rebuttable or irrebuttable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. présomptif. ] 1. Based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Presumptuous; arrogant. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Presumptive evidence (Law), that which is derived from circumstances which necessarily or usually attend a fact, as distinct from direct evidence or positive proof; indirect or circumstantial evidence. “Presumptive evidence of felony should be cautiously admitted.” Blackstone. The distinction, however, between direct and presumptive (or circumstantial) evidence is now generally abandoned; all evidence being now more or less direct and more or less presumptive. --
Presumptive heir. See Heir presumptive, under Heir. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praesumptuosus: cf. F. présomptueux, OF. also presumptuous. See Presumption. ] 1. Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise. Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea. “False, presumptuous hope.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty; willful. “Keep back the servant also from presumptuous sins.” Ps. xix. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Overconfident; foolhardy; rash; presuming; forward; arrogant; insolent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being presumptuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ cf. F. résumption, L. resumptio restoration, recovery, fr. resumere. See Resume. ] 1. The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eng.Law) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ cf. L. resumptivus restorative. ] Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of subsuming, or of including under another. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first act of consciousness was a subsumption of that of which we were conscious under this notion. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism. [ 1913 Webster ]

But whether you see cause to go against the rule, or the subsumption under the rule. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, or containing, a subsumption. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. sumpf a sump in a mine, a swamp, akin to LG. sump, D. somp a swamp, Dan. & Sw. sump, and perhaps to E. swamp. ] 1. (Metal.) A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pond of water for salt works. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A puddle or dirty pool. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sump fuse, a fuse used in blasting under water. --
Sump men (Mining), the men who sink the sump in a mine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dunce; a blockhead. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. sommetier the driver of a pack horse; akin to OF. & F. sommier a pack horse, L. sagmarius, fr. sagma a pack saddle, in LL., a load, Gr. &unr_; a pack saddle, fr. &unr_; to pack, load; cf. Skr. saj, sañj, to hang on. Cf. Seam a weight, Summer a beam. ] 1. The driver of a pack horse. [ Obs. ] Skeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pack; a burden. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An animal, especially a horse, that carries packs or burdens; a baggage horse. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Carrying pack or burdens on the back; as, a sumpter horse; a sumpter mule. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sumptio, fr. sumere, sumptum, to take. ] 1. A taking. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) The major premise of a syllogism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sumptuarius, fr. sumptus expense, cost, fr. sumere, sumptum, to take, use, spend; sub under + emere to take, buy: cf. F. somptuaire. See Redeem. ] Relating to expense; regulating expense or expenditure. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sumptuary laws or
Sumptuary regulations, laws intended to restrain or limit the expenditure of citizens in apparel, food, furniture, etc.; laws which regulate the prices of commodities and the wages of labor; laws which forbid or restrict the use of certain articles, as of luxurious apparel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sumptuositas: cf. F. somptuosité. ] Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness. [ R. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sumptuosus, fr. sumptus expanse, cost: cf. F. somptueux. See Sumptuary. ] Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes
Of shining expectation fixed on mine. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sump"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Sump"tu*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. transumere, transumptum, to take from one to another, in LL., to transcribe. See Transume. ] A copy or exemplification of a record; a transcript. [ Obs. ] Lord Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. transumptio. ] Act of taking from one place to another. [ R. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. transumptivus. ] Taking from one to another; metaphorical. [ R. ] “A transumptive kind of speech.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Polit. Econ.) Consumption of less than is produced; consumption of less than the usual amount. F. A. Walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

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