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A taking. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke.

ence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the presumption is that an event has taken place.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

By way of assumption.

By assumption.

That which is assumed; an assumption. [Obs.] The sun of all your assumpts is this. Chillingworth.

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.…

The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.

s, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. According to some authorities circumstantial is distinguished from positive evidence in that the latter is the testimony of eyewitnesses to a fact or the admission of a party; but the prevalent opinion now is that all su…

vity by the influence of Hertzian waves; -- so called by Sir O. J. Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere, or weld together, a condition easily destroyed by tapping. A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube cont…

which, from its nature, the law allows no contradiction or explanation. -- Conclusive presumption (Law), an inference which the law makes so peremptorily that it will not allow it to be overthrown by any contrary proof, however strong.