assumptĭo | ads- (noun F) : (; v. adsumo
* Init.), , f.assumo.
* In gen., a taking, receiving, assumption (post-Aug. and very rare): adsumptio culturae,Pall. 1, 6, 12: quae adsumptio (eorum erit), nisi vita ex mortuis?Vulg. Rom. 11, 15: dies adsumptionis ejus (of the assumption of our Lord),ib. Luc. 9, 51.
* Esp.
* An eager reception, adoption: artes propter se adsumendas putamus, quia sit in his aliquid dignum adsumptione,Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 18.
* Meton. (abstr. for concr.), one that takes up (eccl. Lat.): Dominus est adsumptio nostra,Vulg. Psa. 88, 19.—Also (after the Hebrew), that which is taken up, lifted up (with the voice), a prophecy: (prophetae) viderunt tibi adsumptiones falsas,Vulg. Thren. 2, 14.
* In logic, t. t., the minor proposition of a syllogism (v. assumo, II. C.), Cic. Inv. 1, 37, 64: adsumptio, quam πρόσληψιν īdem (dialectici) vocant, id. Div. 2, 53, 108; Quint. 5, 14, 5 sq.; Isid. Orig. 2, 9, 2.
* In jurid. Lat., an addition, circumstance, = circumstantia, Dig. 28, 5, 46 fin.