The process of wasting away, gradual destruction. (Considered obsolete).

1. To think that something is true even though there is no evidence for it.
2. To start being responsible for something.
3. To adopt or to take on something.
4. To take on a particular role or function.
5. To put on a pretense of something, usually in order to hide one's true feelings.
6. To take to oneself formally (the insignia of office or symbol of a vocation); to undertake (an office or duty).
7. To take for granted as the basis of argument or action; to suppose that a thing is.

1. Taken for granted.
2. Not genuine or true.

Expecting too much of other people.

1. Taking upon oneself, an undertaking; especially in law.
2. A promise or contract, oral or in writing not sealed, founded upon a consideration.
3. An action to recover damages for breach or non-performance of such a contract.

1. Something that is believed to be true without proof.
2. The action of taking to oneself; reception, adoption.
3. The action of receiving up into heaven; ascent to or reception into heaven; the reception of the Virgin Mary into heaven, with body preserved from corruption, which is a generally accepted doctrine in the Roman Catholic Church. Also the feast held annually on the 15th of August in honor of this event.
4. The action of taking for or upon oneself.
5. The taking upon oneself of a form or character; the formal taking of an office or a position.
6. In law, a promise or undertaking, either oral or in writing not sealed.
7. The action of laying claim to as a possession, unwarrantable claim, usurpation.
8. A taking too much upon oneself, a laying claim to undue importance; arrogance.
9. The taking of anything for granted as the basis of argument or action. 10. That which is assumed or taken for granted; a supposition, postulate. 11. In logic, the minor premise of a syllogism.

1. Someone who bases his/her arguments on an assumption.
2. In the Roman Catholic Church, A member of the congregation entitled Augustinians of the Assumption, "which had its origin in the College of the Assumption, established at Nimes, in France, in 1843."

Given to assumption, assuming; hence, assumptiousness, tendency to take too much upon oneself.

1. Characterized by being assumed or taken to oneself.
2. Of the nature of an assumption; taken for granted.
3. Apt to take to oneself, appropriative.
4. Apt to take things for granted.
5. Making undue claims, assumptious, arrogant

In an assumptive manner, by way of assumption.

1. To eat or drink something, especially in large amounts.
2. To use something in such a way that it cannot be reused or recovered afterwards.
3. To destroy something or someone completely, especially by fire or disease.
4. To buy goods or services produced by other people.

1. Someone who buys goods or services.
2. Someone or something that consumes something, by eating it, drinking it, or using it up.
3. In an ecological community or food chain, an organism that feeds on other organisms, or on materials derived from them. Consumers include herbivorous and carnivorous animals, that feed on plants and other animals respectively; and also organisms such as worms, fungi, and bacteria, which feed on nonliving organic material.

1. The protection of the rights and interests of consumers, especially with regard to price, quality, and safety.
2. An attitude that values the acquisition of material goods.
3. In economy, the belief that the buying and selling of large quantities of consumer good is beneficial to an economy or a sign of economic strength.

So intense as to take up all of a person's attention, time, and/or energy.

The quality of being consumable.

Any object whose use renders it consumed, worn out, or decayed.

1. The action or fact of consuming or destroying; destruction.
2. The dissipation of moisture by evaporation.
3. Wasting of the body by disease; a wasting disease; now applied specifically to pulmonary consumption or phthisis.
4. Wasteful expenditure, waste.
5. The using up of material, the use of anything as food, or for the support of any process.
6. The destructive employment or utilization of the products of industry.

Incapable of being consumed.

1. To accept that something is virtually certain to be correct even though there is no proof of it, on the grounds that it is extremely likely.
2. To behave so inconsiderably, disrespectfully, or overconfidently as to do something without being entitled or qualified to do it; usually used in a negative sense.

1. The taking upon onself of more than is warranted by one's position, right, or (formerly) ability; forward or over-confident opinion or conduct; arrogance, pride, effrontery, assurance.
2. The assuming or taking of something for granted; also, that which is presumed or assumed to be, or to be true, on probable evidence; a belief deduced from facts or experience; assumption, assumed probability, supposition, expectation.
3. In law, presumption of fact: the inference of a fact not certainly known, from known facts.
4. In law, presumption of law: the assumption of the truth of anything until the contrary is proved or an inference established by the law as universally applicable to certain circumstances.
5. A ground or reason for presuming or believing; presumptive evidence.

1. Giving reasonable grounds for presumption or belief; warranting inference.
2. Based on presumption or inference; presumed, inferred.

By presumption or inference; presumably.

Characterized by presumption in opinion or conduct; unduly confident or bold; arrogant, presuming; forward, impertinent.

In a presumptuous manner; with presumption.

The quality of being presumptuous; groundless self-confidence; over-bold forwardness.

1. To continue with something after a temporary halt.
2. To take, assume, or occupy a position again.

1. In general use, the action of taking back or recovering something.
2. The action of resuming, taking up, or commencing again with something that has been stopped for a while.

1. To include or incorporate something into a larger order, category, or classification.
2. To show that a rule applies to something.
3. Originally, to make one point within another.

1. In logic, a proposition subsumed under another; a minor premiss; generally, an assumption.
2. Chiefly in logic and philosophy, the bringing of a concept, cognition, etc. under a general term or a larger or higher concept, etc.; the instancing of a case under a rule, or the like.

1. The reception (of the Sacrament, of Christ in the Sacrament).
2. . The taking of a thing as true without proof; hence, an assumption, premise.; the major premise of a syllogism.

1. Pertaining to or regulating expenditure.
2. Someone who is responsible for expenditures.

1. A reference to buildings, apparel, repasts, and the like: Made or produced at great cost; costly and (hence) magnificent in workmanship, construction, decoration, etc.
2. With reference to natural objects, splendid or magnificent in appearance.