Word Finder - presumed

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With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission.

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I wouldn't presume to tell him how to do his job.

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To perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission.

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Don't make the decision yourself and presume too much.

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To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.

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Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

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To be presumptuous; with on, upon, to take advantage (of), to take liberties (with).

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Appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.

Then you presumed wrong.

He saw a gentleman whom he presumed to be the director, and told him about Helen.

Thomas O'Malley, presumed to be her father, died fifteen years ago.

The prologue may not be historical; but it is to be presumed that it deals with historical possibilities, and is good evidence thus far.

The Desert Rat Kangaroo is missing, presumed extinct.

By some it is identified with the modern village of Bacoli (owing to a presumed similarity to the ancient name), 2 m.

Your Holiness (he wrote) is sovereign of Rome, but I am its emperor; and he threatened to annul the presumed donation of Rome by Charlemagne, unless the pope yielded implicit obedience to him in all temporal affairs.

This species occurs in England the whole year round, and is presumed to have bred there, though the fact has never been satisfactorily proved, and knowledge of its erratic habits comes from naturalists in Pomerania and Sweden.

Of all such cases it is enough to say that it is impossible for the serious inquirer to establish any causal connexion between the omen and the event which it is presumed to foreshadow.

When a person disappears, so that no direct proof of his whereabouts or death is obtainable, death may be presumed at the expiration of seven years from the period when the person was last heard of.

When the religious houses were dissolved by Henry VIII., in the case of the greater abbeys and priories the exemptions from payment of tithes enjoyed by them passed to the Crown or the persons to whom the Crown assigned them, and thus any lands which might have been thus exempted, whether they had been actually so or not, were presumed to be exempt; and a further exemption was created by parsonages coming into the same hands as tithable lands, which lasted so long as such union continued.

Crookes presumed that his thallium was something of the order of sulphur, selenium or tellurium; but Lamy, who anticipated him in isolating the new element, found it to be a metal.

It is to be presumed that the cities of the Sangarius valley gradually lost importance in the Persian period.

It is adequate to its presumed purpose of offering to distant Gentile converts a clear account of their Master's earthly work, and of the causes which led to His rejection by His own people and to His death by Roman crucifixion.

It must be presumed, then, that, in virtue of his general suspicions of the Platonic testimony, Grote in this matter leaves the Sophist out of account.

It is a speech-andthought-form (Xoyos) in which certain matters being posited something other than the matters posited necessarily results because of them, and, though it still needs to receive a deeper meaning when presumed truth gives way to necessary truth of premises, the notion of the class to that of the class-concept, collective fact to universal law, its formal claim is manifest.

Mill's view of ratiocinative process clearly stands and falls with the presumed impossibility of establishing the necessity for universals of another type than his, for what may be called principles of construction.

Nature, e.g., is not deduced as real because rational, but being real its rationality is presumed and, very imperfectly, exhibited in a way to make it possible to conceive it as in its essence the reflex of Reason.

In any piece of presumed knowledge its partial or abstract character involves the presence of loose edges which force the conviction of inadequacy and the development of contradictions.

If an unknown man was found slain, he was presumed to be a Norman, and the hundred was fined accordingly, unless it cculd be proved that he was English.

In pneumonic cases it is presumed to enter by the air-passages, and in bubonic cases by the skin.

From the midst of the Franciscans who had persecuted Roger Bacon because he presumed to know more than was consistent with human humility arose John of Parma, adopting and popularizing the mystic prophecy of Joachim of Flora.

Consequently the Australian natives must be presumed to have reached the island-continent by way of Malaya; and if this be admitted, nothing is more likely than that they should have been accompanied by pariah dogs of the Indian type.

When Bute retired and George Grenville accepted the cares of official life, the higher post of first lord of the admiralty fell to Townshend's lot, but with his usual impetuosity he presumed to designate one of his satellites, Sir William Burrell (1732-1796), to a place under him at the board, and the refusal to accept the nomination led to his exclusion from the new administration.

Nicholson was not a printer, but, as he was an author and editor, it is presumed that he had some knowledge of printing.

It is presumed that the fate of the prime minister or kaim-makam, who was strangled in prison, was no more than an ordinary execution of the law.

With the laudable object of releasing Danish trade from the grinding yoke of the Hansa, and making Copenhagen the great emporium of the north, Christian had arbitrarily raised the Sound tolls and seized a number of Dutch ships which presumed to evade the tax.

Being men of presumed learning and undoubted leisure, many of the class found admission to the houses of the French nobility as tutors or advisers.

Unaware of Adams's work, he attempted a like inquiry, and on the 1st of June 1846, in a second memoir, gave the position, but not the mass or orbit, of the disturbing body whose existence was presumed.

The political clubs which sprang up all over the country often presumed to act as though they were public authorities (see Jacobins).

Plutarch naturally presumed that the myths which seem absurd shrouded some great moral or physical mystery.

Among people a little more advanced, the earth is presumed to have grown out of the waters.

Any careful perusal of modern attempts to recover historical facts or an historical outline from the book will show how very inadequate the material proves to be, and the reconstructions will be found to depend upon an interpretation of the narratives which is often liberal and not rarely precarious, and to imply such reshaping and rewriting of the presumed facts that the cautious reader can place little reliance on them.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the ecclesiastical parish is presumed to be composed of a single township or vill, and to be conterminous with the manor within the ambit of which it is comprised.

Their most original feature was the omission of a religious test for citizenship, though a precedent for this is to be found in the Plymouth Colony; on the other hand, the union of church and state was presumed in the preamble, and in 1659 a property qualification (the possession of an estate of X30) for suffrage was imposed by the general court.

The neighbourhood is now very unhealthy, and it may be presumed that the process of depopulation, caused by increasingly unhealthy conditions and diminishing sources of food supply, was gradual.

He only had one ex-girlfriend, past-Death, and she was presumed dead.

The communities in the locality were in lockdown after Straffen's almost nonchalant escape and his presumed murder of Linda Bowyer.

To date it has not been proven to be heritable, however knowledgeable breeders recommend that it be presumed to be heritable.

At the foot of a hill, he saw a bulldozer digging what the witness presumed would be a mass grave.

Victims presumed dead were taken to nearby houses and laid out.

The Atlantic extrapolation of the New Deal presumed wage differentials justifying the transfer of production from the United States to the Old World.

The latter pair were seen to dance before the (presumed) female settled down to incubate the egg.

He learned of another who was reported missing, presumed dead, at sea.

Others are presumed to be active because of their structural similarity to active peptidases from other species such as rat.

All this I presumed was for having being returned to Italy whilst other ranks were enjoying their de-mob back in dear old England.

Indeed, 24 hours in, my PA entered the room clutching a briefcase, which everyone presumed contained vital documents.

If the Purchaser shall not give notice within such period the Goods shall be conclusively presumed to have been accepted by the Purchaser.

Chancel and south aisle presumed to be early 15thC, but east wall of former partially reconstructed.

The presumed ringleader had traveled to Pakistan and studied at as Islamic school which had a reputation for radical teaching.