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Definition of Assumed
1. Adjective. Adopted in order to deceive. "Sham modesty"
Similar to: Counterfeit, Imitative
Derivative terms: Falseness, Fiction, Sham, Sham
Definition of Assumed
1. a. Supposed.
Definition of Assumed
1. Verb. (past of assume) ¹
2. Adjective. Used in a manner intended to deceive; fictitious. ¹
3. Adjective. Supposed or presumed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assumed
1. assume [v] - See also: assume
Literary usage of Assumed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1885)
"to the method of "assumed inversion" the arithmetical mean of, not maximum, ...
It would be interesting to compare this conclusion of assumed inversion with ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"In fact when the problem involves acceleration not constant, but varying according
to some assumed law a graphical or arithmetical solution of it will be ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"On the death of his cousin, Mrs. Verney of Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, he
assumed the surname of Verney in place of that \ of Calvert by royal license, ..."
4. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution by Thomas Paine (1856)
"... itself assumed to be, and of absorbing the rights of the a house over which
it has neither election nor ..."
5. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"assumed the lead of the confederates. The Athenians, I. as the Persian host
advanced, resolved to forsake their T^ He}- city, broke up their homes, and, ..."
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