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Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims. -- As*sump"tive*ly, adv. 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.…

. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer.

The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.

In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras.

To unite in making. [Obs. & R.] The four elements . . . have atoned A noble league. Ford.

Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in…

A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort. By his blindness maimed for high attempts. Milton. Attempt to commit a crime (Law), such an intentional preparatory act as will apparently result, if not extrinsically hin…

Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent. -- n. (Med.)

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

A practicing of attitudes; posture making.

The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

able turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. They auspicate all their proceedings. Burke.

A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.

The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

The art or process of making autotypes.

medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets. On an average, taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities.

The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking. Cowell.

e act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. Blackstone.