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

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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

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