desume

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English

Etymology

Latin desumere; de + sumere (“to take”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪˈzjuːm/, /dɪˈzuːm/

Verb

desume (third-person singular simple present desumes, present participle desuming, simple past and past participle desumed)

  1. (obsolete) To borrow; to select.
    • 1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching the Original of the Common Law of England”, in The History of the Common Law of England: , : J Nutt, assignee of Edw Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, , →OCLC, page 65:
      [T]hoſe Laws, if convenient and uſeful for the Kingdom, were never the worſe, tho' they were deſumed and taken from the Laws of other Countries, ſo as they had their Stamp of Obligation and Authority from the Reception and Approbation of this Kingdom by Vertue of the Common Law, […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “desume”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Verb

desume

  1. third-person singular present indicative of desumere

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

dēsūme

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēsūmō
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