Read full poem →This, when the various god had urged in vain,
He straight assumed his native form again:
Such, and so bright an aspect now he bears,
Dictionary Entry
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
In a Sentence
“We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.”
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “assumed”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Assumed the stranger’s yoke; but then behold how meek
Those unbred Caesars grew, who spent their fruits of Rome
Read full poem →Swallows forth from their retirement, is the Declaration of Indulgence,
in consequence of which the Catholics assumed the open and general
exercise of their religion. The Irish Catholics, with the sanguine
Read full poem →thought and style; and the _Portfolio_ (No. vi. pp. 121-128), in an
elaborate skit, entitled "Literary Frauds," assumed, and affected to
prove, that the entire poem was a forgery, and belonged to the same
Read full poem →Where'er I looked, I saw new light.
Earth's self assumed a greater glory,
Mine eyes were cleared to fuller sight.
Read full poem →Woodbridge, Suffolk, being the third son of John Purcell, who,
subsequently to his marriage with a Miss FitzGerald, assumed the name
and arms proper to his wife's family.
Read full poem →Moses, προλογίζει, recounting how he assumed his true body; that it
corrupts not, because it is with God in the mount; declares the like of
Read full poem →often pursued low amours in mean disguises, and always acted with great
exactness and dexterity the characters which he assumed.
Read full poem →an appendix is also assumed. Lastly we rely on our