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Assumed

adjective

1.

Adopted in order to deceive. Synonyms: false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham. "An assumed cheerfulness" , "A fictitious address" , "Fictive sympathy" , "A pretended interest" , "A put-on childish voice" , "Sham modesty"

Assume

verb

(past & past part. assumed; pres. part. assuming)

1.

Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof. Synonyms: presume, take for granted.

2.

Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities. Synonyms: adopt, take on, take over.

3.

Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect. Synonyms: acquire, adopt, take, take on. "The story took a new turn" , "He adopted an air of superiority" , "She assumed strange manners" , "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"

4.

Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person. Synonyms: accept, bear, take over. "She agreed to bear the responsibility"

5.

Occupy or take on. Synonyms: strike, take, take up. "She took her seat on the stage" , "We took our seats in the orchestra" , "She took up her position behind the tree" , "Strike a pose"

6.

Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession. Synonyms: arrogate, seize, take over, usurp. "He usurped my rights" , "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"

7.

Make a pretence of. Synonyms: feign, sham, simulate. "He feigned sleep"

8.

Take up someone's soul into heaven.

9.

Put clothing on one's body. Synonyms: don, get into, put on, wear. "He put on his best suit for the wedding" , "The princess donned a long blue dress" , "The queen assumed the stately robes" , "He got into his jeans"

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... knew naught of this, and merely smiled sweetly at these strange men in gorgeous foreign robes, and reached out his little hand toward them. But Occult tradition has it that the tiny fingers and thumb of his right hand, outstretched toward the Magi, unconsciously assumed the mystic symbol of the Occult Benediction, used by the Masters and Hierophants (and now used by the Pope in Papal Benediction) and gave to the worshippers that Master's benediction. The tiny Master of Masters thus gave his first blessing ...

— Mystic Christianity • Yogi Ramacharaka

... their manners, which are chiefly remarkable for a most extraordinary carelessness about the conduct of their women; neither have they adopted the Brahmans as their priests. Some of themselves, with the title of Achar, have assumed the manners and authority ...

— An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton

... Nicholas, "now deemed it expedient to interpose their oratory, as confirming mediators between the parties, though there was no longer any enmity existing on either side. They spoke with great animation, and the warriors listened to their separate speeches in attentive silence. They assumed, I thought, a very determined tone, employing a great deal of impressive action, and looking towards the opposite chief with an asperity of countenance not warranted by the mild forbearance of his deportment. The expostulating harangues, as I should suppose they were, of these sturdy ladies completed ...

— John Rutherford, the White Chief • George Lillie Craik

... days in France, attributed to their squabbles and disputes. The idleness to which an absolute government necessarily condemns nine-tenths of its subjects, sufficiently accounts for the exaggerated importance given to and assumed by the French writers, even before they had become, in the language of the Reviewer, "the interpreters between England and mankind:" he asserts, "that all the great discoveries in physics, in metaphysics, in political science, are ours but no ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

... great harm to the country, as enormous taxation had been expended for the private benefit of his clique. On top of this had been the young emperor's extravagance: his latest pleasures had been the building of palaces and the carrying out of military games; he constantly assumed new military titles and was burning ...

— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard

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