Word Finder - presumes

definition

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).

It presumes the reality of its sub ject in a postulate of existence.

Henry Thomas Colebrooke, one of the earliest modern investigators of Hindu science, presumes that the treatise of Aryabhatta extended to determinate quadratic equations, indeterminate equations of the first degree, and probably of the second.

His action gained him hero status with many loyalists, including, one presumes, those who painted the Derry mural.

Firstly, Malcolm presumes a certain understanding of God based on traditional Christian theism which is typically expressed in realist terms.

His wife, who is pregnant at the time, presumes he is dead.

One presumes that later expeditions were planned to follow the Robinsons and help found the planned colony.

However, this presumes that you already have a blog.

Now, this presumes you already have a computer with some sort of sound input capable of recording voice.

The Sophistes is apparently matter for animadversion by Aristotle in the Metaphysics and elsewhere, but derives stronger support from the testimonies to the Politicus which presumes it.

Or still more the dialectical device by which the sceptic claims to escape the riposte that his very argument presumes the validity of this or that principle, viz.