assumption

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.

   “His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.”

2. (countable, uncountable)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.”

3. (countable, uncountable)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.”

4. (countable, uncountable)The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
5. (countable, uncountable)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.”

6. (countable, uncountable)A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
7. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)Assumptio.

name

1. The Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, into heaven, a Catholic dogma.
2. A Christian holy day of obligation (August 15) celebrating the Assumption of Mary.