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onstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. Pope. The god assumed his native form again. Pope.

Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

By assumption.

A patch; an addition; a piece put on. [Obs.] John Lewis (1731).

One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.

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

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

that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.

As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear,…

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. Thou dost affect my manners. Shak.

An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke.

Assumed artificially; not natural. Affected coldness and indifference. Addison.

One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.

Allied; akin. "Agnate words." Pownall. Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor.

Another name; an assumed name.

The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.

ly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the…

al structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.