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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
assumed
    adj 1: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an
           assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive
           sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish
           voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false,
           fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Assumed \As*sumed"\, a.
   1. Supposed.
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   2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed
      character.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Assume \As*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assumed; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Assuming.] [L. assumere; ad + sumere to take; sub +
   emere to take, buy: cf. F. assumer. See Redeem.]
   1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and
      demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take
      unjustly.
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            Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
                                                  --Pope.
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            The god assumed his native form again. --Pope.
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   2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a
      fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
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            The consequences of assumed principles. --Whewell.
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   3. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
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            Ambition assuming the mask of religion. --Porteus.
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            Assume a virtue, if you have it not.  --Shak.
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   4. To receive or adopt.
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            The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and
            lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   Syn: To arrogate; usurp; appropriate.
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