assumptio

assumptĭo ( ads-; v. adsumo init. ), ōnis, f. [assumo].

I.

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.—

II.

Esp.,

A.

An eager reception, adoption:

artes propter se adsumendas putamus, quia sit in his aliquid dignum adsumptione,

Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 18.—

B.

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.—

C.

In logic, t. t., the minor proposition of a syllogism (v. assumo, II. C.), Cic. Inv. 1, 37, 64: adsumptio, quam proslêpsin īdem (dialectici) vocant, id. Div. 2, 53, 108; Quint. 5, 14, 5 sq.; Isid. Orig. 2, 9, 2.—

D.

In jurid. Lat., an addition, circumstance, = circumstantia, Dig. 28, 5, 46 fin.