assumption
Definitions
noun
The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.
The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
Their assumption of his guilt disqualified them from jury duty.
The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
No doubt a finite evaluative argument must make some unargued evaluative assumptions, just as finite factual arguments must make some unargued factual assumptions.
The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
The taking of a person up into heaven.
Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.
name
The Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, into heaven, a Catholic dogma.
A Christian holy day of obligation (August 15) celebrating the Assumption of Mary.