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presume (iou) and cold insoluble globulin (medicine)


presume (iou)



presume verb. LME.
[Old & mod. French presumer from Latin praesumere, from prae PRE- + sumere take.]
verb trans.
a. Undertake without adequate authority or permission; venture on. Now rare. LME.
P. P. Read He looked surprised..as if a servant had presumed too great a familiarity.
b. Take the liberty or be audacious enough to do. LME.
H. Kissinger He is a reckless ambassador who would presume to preempt his chiefs.
verb trans. Assume to be true or (Law) proved in the absence of evidence to the contrary, presuppose (that); assume (a person or thing) to be. LME.
Law Reports Death is presumed from the person not being heard of for seven years. Betty Smith You have a sweetheart or a brother, I presume? L. Durrell Those who..presume that if he spent his time with me I must also..be rich. A. MacLean In law every man is presumed innocent until proved otherwise.
verb intrans. Act with an assumption of authority; take liberties. Foll. by (up)on: act presumptuously on the strength of, take (unscrupulous) advantage of; also (now rare), count confidently on. LME.
R. Shaw Forgive me if I have presumed. F. Raphael Shelley..presumed..on Byron's goodwill.
verb intrans. Make one's way overconfidently into an unwarranted position; presume to go. LME-L17.
Milton Into the Heaven of Heavens I have presumed, An earthly guest.
verb trans. Make pretension, profess, to do. L15-M17.
presumedly adverb as is presumed, supposedly M19.
presumer noun E16.
presuming ppl adjective presumptuous, arrogant E17.
presumingly adverb E17.

cold insoluble globulin (medicine)


cold insoluble globulin
<haematology> Name, now obsolete, originally given to fibronectin prepared from cryoprecipitate.