Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.
It occurs to me that Mount must assume that Hitchcock has read it--after all, it came from him.
I assume he turned something else into aspirin and black coffee the next morning.
We can only assume that he was, as you would expect him to be, mortified by his own inability to keep his charges under control.
Contrary to what you may assume about me, I actually enjoy the occasional trip to the mall.
Sympathetic persons are apt to assume that every refined emotion must be ennobling.
I come before you and assume the Presidency at a moment rich with promise.
What if Remorse should assume the features of an injured friend?
"Go on before, and make a way for us," said the doctor, with an authority he had no right to assume.
This bantering is most pointed if we assume that Rosaline was dark rather than fair.
early 15c., assumpten "to receive up into heaven" (especially of the Virgin Mary), also assumen "to arrogate," from Latin assumere "to take up, take to oneself," from ad- "to, up" (see ad-) + sumere "to take," from sub "under" + emere "to take" (see exempt (adj.)).
Meaning "to suppose, to take for granted as the basis of argument" is first recorded 1590s; that of "to take or put on (an appearance, etc.)" is from c.1600. Related: Assumed; assuming. Early past participle was assumpt. In rhetorical usage, assume expresses what the assumer postulates, often as a confessed hypothesis; presume expresses what the presumer really believes.
