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Definition of Presume
1. Verb. Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof. "I assume his train was late"
Specialized synonyms: Presuppose, Suppose
Generic synonyms: Anticipate, Expect
Derivative terms: Assumption, Assumption, Assumption, Assumptive, Presumption, Presumption, Presumption, Presumptive, Presumptive
2. Verb. Take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission. "How dare you call my lawyer?"
3. Verb. Constitute reasonable evidence for. "A restaurant bill presumes the consumption of food"
Derivative terms: Presumptive, Presumptive
4. Verb. Take liberties or act with too much confidence.
Definition of Presume
1. v. t. To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.
2. v. i. 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.
Definition of Presume
1. Verb. (transitive now rare) To perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To assume to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To be presumptuous; with (term on), (term upon), to take advantage (of), to take liberties (with). (defdate from 15th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Presume
1. to take for granted [v -SUMED, -SUMING, -SUMES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presume
Literary usage of Presume
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... then if he fails satisfactorily to account for his possession to tho satisfaction
of the jury, the jury has the right to presume he is the guilty party, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"his subjects ; and the monarch was nobly buried under a mountain " of the slain.
Let none, therefore, presume to ascribe the victory " of the barbarians to ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"The Lords of Appeal did not mean to set themselves up u legislators for the whole
world, or presume in any manner to interfere with the commercial ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... he wondered the Officers would presume to meet without his Orders, and he
comanded them to disperse and retire to theire respective Quarters. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1849)
"Croll the writer of these remarks does not presume to offer an opinion : but that
the question was one which deserved consideration can hardly be doubted. ..."
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