Verb

(assum)

To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.

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To take on a position, duty or form.

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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.

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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

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To take on in appearance; to adopt (a feigned attribute, etc.).

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

*(Beilby Porteus) (1731-1809)

*:ambition assuming the mask of religion

To receive or adopt.

*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

*:The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.

To adopt an idea or cause.

Verb

(seiz)

to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture

to take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance)

to take possession of (by force, law etc.)

to seize smuggled goods

to seize a ship after libeling

to have a sudden and powerful effect upon

a panic seized the crowd

a fever seized him

(nautical) to bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line

to seize two fish-hooks back to back

to seize or stop one rope on to another

(obsolete) to fasten, fix

to lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon)

to seize on the neck of a horse

The text which had seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength abode upon him for more than a year.'' (''Southey , Bunyan, p. 21)

to have a seizure

* 2012 , Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician

Nearing what she thought was a climax, he started seizing and fell off her. Later, realizing he was dead, she became alarmed and dragged the body to his vehicle to make it look like he had died in his truck.

to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up

Rust caused the engine to seize , never to run again.

(UK) to submit for consideration to a deliberative body.