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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Assumed \As*sumed"\, adjective
1. Supposed.
2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Assume \As*sume"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Assumed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assuming}.] [L. assumere; ad + sumere to take; sub + emere to take, buy: cf. F. assumer. See {Redeem}.]
1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. --Pope.
The god assumed his native form again. --Pope.
2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
The consequences of assumed principles. --Whewell.
3. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
Ambition assuming the mask of religion. --Porteus.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. --Shak.
4. To receive or adopt.
The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. --Sir W. Scott.
Syn: To arrogate; usurp; appropriate.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
assumed
adjective
1: accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for granted" [syn: {assumptive}, {taken for granted(p)}]
2: taken as your right without justification; "was hearing evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states" [syn: {arrogated}]
3: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: {false}, {fictitious}, {fictive}, {pretended}, {put on}, {sham}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "assumed": accepted, accounted as, affected, alleged, apocryphal, artificial, assumptive, bastard, bogus, brummagem, chanced, colorable, colored, conjectured, counterfeit, counterfeited, deceptive, deemed, delusory, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, expected, expropriated, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, garbled, given, granted, hinted, hypocritical, hypothetical, illegitimate, illusory, imitation, implicated, implied, in hand, in process, in progress, in the works, indicated, inferred, insubstantial, intimated, involved, junky, made-up, make-believe, man-made, meant, mock, on the anvil, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, postulated, postulational, premised, presumed, presumptive, presupposed, pretended, pseudo, put on, put-on, putative, quasi, queer, reputed, seized, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, suggested, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, synthetic, taken, taken for granted, theoretical, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, under way, understood, undertaken, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped
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