Assumption

1. n. A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
2. n. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one’s self; the act of taking up or adopting.
3. n. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
4. n. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
5. n. The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
6. n. The taking of a person up into heaven.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.