Obs. rare. [ad. L. assūmentum, f. assuĕre to sew on: see -MENT.] Something tacked on, an addition.
[1642. Jer. Taylor, Episc. (1647), 177. [It] … is not found in the Greek, but is an assumentum for exposition of the Greek.]
1731. Lewis, Hist. Eng. Bible, 9 (T.). This assument or addition … he never could find anywhere but in this Anglo-Saxonick translation.
