To take into relation or association; adopt; take in; admit: as, “Enoch and Elias were assumed up into heaven,” Abp. Abbot. See assumption, 5.To take upon one's self; undertake: as, to assume the responsibility of a proceeding; to assume office; to assume an obligation.To take or put on one's self; invest one's self with: as, to assume the garb of a mendicant, or the figure of an animal; to assume a severe aspect; “to assume man's nature,”To apply to one's self; appropriate.To take for granted or without proof; suppose as a fact; postulate: as, to assume a principle in reasoning.To take fictitiously; pretend to possess; take in appearance: as, to assume the garb of humility.To claim.Synonyms To affect, feign, counterfeit.To be arrogant; claim more than is due; presume.