Bible Dictionaries
Assume

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. i.) To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.

(2):

(v. t.) To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.

(3):

(v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

(4):

(v. i.) To undertake, as by a promise.

(5):

(v. t.) To receive or adopt.

(6):

(v. t.) To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Assume'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/assume.html. 1828.