The act or process of acquiring.
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The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
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The act or process of acquiring.
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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.
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Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.
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Dead.
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A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…
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A wonder or wonderful thing.
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To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.
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The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.
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Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…
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A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.
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Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
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The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
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The last part of anything; close; termination; end.
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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…
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The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
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Foundation.
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of Give
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That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
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A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.
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The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof.
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A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.
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The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
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The act of subsuming, or of including under another.
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A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
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To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…
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To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…
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To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
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To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
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Premise.
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Premise.
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Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous comman…
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Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous comman…
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To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp…
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To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp…
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Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, cha…
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Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced ass…
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A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
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Premise.
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The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof.
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The quality or state of being presumptuous.
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The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.
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The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
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A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the compo…
An idea accepted without being fully established.
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