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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.

To assume again or anew; to resume. -- Re`as*sump"tion, n.

Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed. Sir M. HAle.

A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation. The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book. C. Kingsley.

To summon again.

A second summons.

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.

A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.

A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.

Assumed by one's own act, or without authority.

Consuming one's self or itself.

Capable of being subsumed. J. B. Stallo.

y one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else. To subsume one proposition under another. De Quincey. A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuous efforts after righteousness. W. Pater.

The 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.

In the Eucharist, the versicles immediately before the preface, inviting the people to join in the service by "lifting up the heart" to God.