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Sumptuous. [Obs.] -- O*pip"a*rous*ly, adv. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse.

Excessive presumption. [R.] B. Jonson.

Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent. Shak. -- O"ver*bold"ly, adv.

Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. -- O`ver*ween"ingly, adv. Milton. -- O`ver*ween"ing*ness, n. Here's an overweening rogue. Shak.

An assumption of buffoonery to cover some serious purpose. [R.] Donaldson.

. Their small paternal field of corn. Dryden. Paternal government (Polit. Science), the assumption by the governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own afffairs.…

By way of begging the question; by an assumption. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Pulmonary consumption.

A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption. Fibroid phthisis. See under Fibroid.

The assumption of several structural forms without a corresponding difference in function; -- said of sponges, etc.

entious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress. Thackeray. -- Pom"ous*ly, adv. -- Pomp"ous*ness, n.

The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.

r equip ostentatiously; - - often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink. In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank. Spenser.

In a presumable manner; by, or according to, presumption.

To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence. Do not presume too much upon my love. Shak. This man presumes upon his part…

By presumption.

The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.

As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. Collier.

The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension. Spenser. Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power. Locke. I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship of Merton College, Oxford. Evelyn.