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Based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof.

By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably.

Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct. A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise. Buckminster.

In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly.

The quality or state of being presumptuous.

The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.

act of subsuming, or of including under another. The first act of consciousness was a subsumption of that of which we were conscious under this notion. Sir W. Hamilton.

Relating to, or containing, a subsumption. Coleridge.

A copy or exemplification of a record. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.

Act of taking from one place to another. [R.] South.

Taking from one to another; metaphorical. [R.] "A transumptive kind of speech." Drayton. Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive. Lowell.

Consumption of less than is produced; consumption of less than the usual amount. F. A. Walk

owed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow. The Persian dames, . . . In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.

bark of several trees, esp. of Bowdichia virgilioides of Brazil, used as a remedy for consumption; of Byrsonima crassifolia, used in tanning; of Alchornea latifolia, used medicinally; or of Quercus ilex, the cork tree.

Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.

Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption. -- n.

whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive.

the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption. I hate not you for her proud arrogance. Shak.

To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings. He arrogated to himself the right of deciding dogmatically what was orthodox doctrine. Macaulay.