Verb

(assum)

To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.

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To take on a position, duty or form.

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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.

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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

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To take on in appearance; to adopt (a feigned attribute, etc.).

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

*(Beilby Porteus) (1731-1809)

*:ambition assuming the mask of religion

To receive or adopt.

*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

*:The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.

To adopt an idea or cause.

Verb

(en verb)

To hold up a claim emphatically.

(I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)

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To demand continually that something happen or be done.

To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

* 1709 , Venturus Mandey, Synopsis Mathematica Universalis

Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.