Crossword-Solution: PRESUME
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Presume | v. t. | To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained. |
| Presume | v. t. | To take or suppose to be true, or entitled to belief, without examination or proof, or on the strength of probability; to take for granted; to infer; to suppose. |
| Presume | v. i. | To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far. |
| Presume | v. i. | To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRESUME | anagram | SUPREME |
We have 46 clues for the answer “PRESUME”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Take it that | 1 answer |
| Stanley's word | 1 answer |
| Stanley's well-known verb. | 1 answer |
| End of a question to Livingstone | 1 answer |
| Dr. Livingston, I --- | 1 answer |
| Be unwarrantably bold | 1 answer |
| "Dr. Livingstone, I ___" | 1 answer |
| DARESAY | 2 answers |
| Suppose to be true | 2 answers |
| Take liberties | 4 answers |
| Take for granted | 6 answers |
| JUMP to conclusions | 7 answers |
| theorise | 8 answers |
| overstep | 10 answers |
| hypothesise | 10 answers |
| BE GRANTED | 10 answers |
| BE AUDACIOUS | 11 answers |
| ACT in advance | 12 answers |
| Bank (on) | 13 answers |
| philosophise | 13 answers |
| Promulgate | 21 answers |
| Hint at | 23 answers |
| Surmise | 23 answers |
| Obtrude | 25 answers |
| predicate | 28 answers |
| Profess | 29 answers |
| Infer | 31 answers |
| apply logic | 32 answers |
| Suppose | 32 answers |
| posit | 33 answers |
| Expect | 36 answers |
| Pronounce | 37 answers |
| Act like | 37 answers |
| Venture | 41 answers |
| Conjecture | 42 answers |
| Contemplate | 44 answers |
| Reckon | 45 answers |
| Conclude | 45 answers |
| Suspect | 46 answers |
| Believe | 48 answers |
| Press | 57 answers |
| Intrude | 58 answers |
| Gather | 62 answers |
| Pledge | 65 answers |
| Endorse | 65 answers |
| Subject | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRESUME (5)
God to remove his wayes from human sense, Plac’d Heav’n from Earth so farr, that earthly sight, If it presume, might erre in things too high, And no advantage gaine.
Sirrah, what mak’st thou here? Dost thou presume To approach my doors, thou brazen-faced rogue, My murderer and the filcher of my crown? Come, answer this, didst thou detect in me Some touch of cowardice or witlessness, That made thee undertake this enterprise? I seemed forsooth too simple to perceive The serpent stealing on me in the dark, Or else too weak to scotch it when I saw.
Nevertheless, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking at this very moment to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eiderdown pillow.
The TEI points the publisher in a proper direction but does not presume to make all the decisions for him or her.
Percy has sailed for Calais, I presume for some lonely part of the coast, and Chauvelin is on his track.
Quotes with PRESUME (3)
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can believers presume to know that these assertions are true? The reasons they give are various, but the ultimate justification for most religious people’s beliefs is a simple one: we believe what we believe because our holy scriptures say so. But how, then, do we know that our holy scriptures are factually accurate? Because the…
Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. How? By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing. Avoid the mundane. Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of Me. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do th…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 36 times in crossword archives (1958–2024).