Obs. [ad. L. assūmptus, pa. pple. of assūmĕre to ASSUME.]
A. pa. pple. Assumed, taken up, raised, elevated, elected. (Used as pa. pple. of the vb. assume.)
1447. [see ASSUME v. 4.]
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 255/1. Therby he understode that she was assumpt in to heuen.
1502. Arnold, Chron. (1811), 280. He was assumpte to the state of cardynal.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1027/2. Jesus is asaumpt, or taken awaie into heauen.
B. sb. A thing assumed, an assumption.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M., II. 357. He … first of all denied the Bishop’s assumpt.
1570. Billingsley, Euclid, I. xix. 28. An Assumpt is a Proposition taken of necessitie to the helpe of a demonstration, the certainty whereof is not so plaine, and therefore nedeth it selfe first to be demonstrated.
1638. Chillingw., Relig. Prot., I. i. § 12. 39. The summe of all your Assumpts … is this.
