Assumption \As*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [OE. assumpcioun a taking
up into heaven, L. assumptio a taking, fr. assumere: cf. F.
assomption. See Assume.]
1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the
act of taking up or adopting.
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The assumption of authority. --Whewell.
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2. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing
without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
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This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable
assumption that the soul sleeps from the period of
death to the resurrection of the body. --Thodey.
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That calm assumption of the virtues. --W. Black.
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3. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a
supposition.
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Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong.
--Dryden.
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4. (Logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical
syllogism.
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5. The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath.
& Greek Churches) A festival in honor of the ascent of the
Virgin Mary into heaven.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
assumption
n 1: a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a
conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has
been injured we can infer that he will not to play"
[syn: premise, premiss]
2: a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is
built upon certain assumptions" [syn: supposition, supposal]
3: the act of taking possession of or power over something;
"his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in
Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he
acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars
and the assumption of the company's debts" [syn: laying
claim]
4: celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin
Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life
ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern
Orthodox church [syn: Assumption of Mary, August 15]
5: audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right
to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness" [syn: presumption,
presumptuousness, effrontery]
6: (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the
Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
7: the act of assuming or taking for granted; "your assumption
that I would agree was unwarranted"
WordNet (r) 2.0
281 Moby Thesaurus words for "assumption":
a priori principle, about-face, acceptance, accession, acquisition,
admission, admittance, adoption, affirmation, alchemy, allegory,
allusion, anointing, anointment, apotheosis, appointment,
appropriation, apriorism, arcane meaning, arrogation, ascension,
ascent, aspiration, assertion, assignment, assimilation,
assumed position, assumption, assurance, assured faith, attitude,
authorization, axiom, basis, beatification, becoming,
borrowed plumes, canonization, categorical proposition, change,
change-over, cheerful expectation, climate of opinion,
colonization, coloration, common belief, community sentiment,
conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, confidence, conjecture,
connotation, conquest, consecration, consensus gentium,
consideration, conversion, conviction, copying, coronation, data,
deification, delegation, dependence, deputation, derivation,
deriving, desire, doomed hope, election, elevation, empowerment,
encroachment, enshrinement, enslavement, entailment, erection,
escalation, estimate, estimation, ethos, exaltation, expectation,
eye, fair prospect, faith, familiarity, feeling, fervent hope,
first principles, flip-flop, foundation, fundamental, gathering,
general belief, getting, good cheer, good hope, great expectations,
ground, growth, guess, guesswork, height, high hopes, hint, hope,
hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope,
hubris, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, idea, imitation,
implication, implied meaning, import, imposition, impression,
indent, inference, infringement, innuendo, insolence, intimation,
invasion, involvement, ironic suggestion, judgment, lapse, law,
lawlessness, legitimate succession, lemma, liberties,
liberty abused, license, licentiousness, lifting, lights,
major premise, meaning, metaphorical sense, mind, minor premise,
mocking, mystique, naturalization, notion, nuance, observation,
occult meaning, occupation, opinion, overtone, overweening,
overweeningness, passage, pasticcio, pastiche, personal judgment,
philosopheme, philosophical proposition, pirating, plagiarism,
plagiary, playing God, point of view, popular belief, posit,
position, postulate, postulation, postulatum, posture,
prayerful hope, preemption, premise, preoccupation, prepossession,
presumption, presumptuousness, presupposal, presupposition,
prevailing belief, principle, progress, promise, proposition,
propositional function, prospect, prospects, public belief,
public opinion, raising, re-formation, reaction, rearing, receipt,
receival, receiving, reception, reconversion, reduction, reliance,
requisition, resolution, resurrection, reversal,
sanguine expectation, security, seizure, sentiment,
set of postulates, shift, sight, simulation, stance, statement,
subjugation, subsense, subsidiary sense, subsumption, succession,
suggestion, sumption, supposal, supposing, supposition, surmise,
sursum corda, switch, switch-over, symbolism, takeover, taking,
taking over, the Ascension, the Assumption, theorem, theory,
thesis, thinking, thought, tinge, touch, transformation, transit,
transition, translation, trespass, trespassing, trust, truth table,
truth-function, truth-value, turning into, undercurrent,
undermeaning, undertone, undue liberty, upbuoying, upcast,
upheaval, uplift, uplifting, upping, uprearing, upthrow, upthrust,
usurpation, view, volte-face, way of thinking, well-grounded hope,
working hypothesis
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Assumption, IL (city, FIPS 2609)
Location: 39.51796 N, 89.04843 W
Population (1990): 1244 (579 housing units)
Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 62510
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Assumption -- U.S. Parish in Louisiana
Population (2000): 23388
Housing Units (2000): 9635
Land area (2000): 338.681886 sq. miles (877.182021 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 25.871397 sq. miles (67.006609 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 364.553283 sq. miles (944.188630 sq. km)
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 29.926900 N, 91.054794 W
Headwords:
Assumption
Assumption, LA
Assumption Parish
Assumption Parish, LA
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Assumption, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 1261
Housing Units (2000): 607
Land area (2000): 0.879889 sq. miles (2.278902 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.879889 sq. miles (2.278902 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02609
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.519545 N, 89.049129 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62510
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Assumption, IL
Assumption
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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