presumptive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: embryology
law
medicine
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *upó
From pre- + Latin sūmptus + -ive, from Late Middle English presumptif, presumptijf (“based on presumption”), from Anglo-Norman presumptif and Middle French presumptif, présomptif (“based on presumption; of an heir or heiress: presumed to be entitled to inherit unless someone with a superior entitlement is born; presumptuous”) (modern French présomptif), and directly from their etymon Late Latin praesumptivus (“based on presumption; bold; insolent”), from Latin praesūmptus (“presumed”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives). Praesūmptus is the perfect passive participle of praesūmō (“to presume”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) + sūmō (“to seize, take; to accept, presuppose; to undertake”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”)).
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: more presumptive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most presumptive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.
pos: adj
examples: By late May, he was already considered his party’s presumptive nominee.
Hovv delightfully vvould your time have been taken up vvith the appeals of ſcolding vvives, forſaken damſels and vvitches preſumptive!
It's a beautiful point of presumptive murder, and there's been nane like it in the Justiciar Court since the case of Luckie Smith the howdie, that suffered in the year saxteen hundred and seventy-nine.
gloss: Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.
pos: adj
examples: The Queen’s younger brother was the heir presumptive to the throne, until she gave birth to her first child.
[B]y lavv no inheritance can veſt, nor can any perſon be the actual complete heir of another, till the anceſtor is previouſly dead. Nemo eſt haeres viventis [No one is the heir of the living]. Before that time the perſon vvho is next in the line of ſucceſſion is called an heir apparent, or heir preſumptive. […] Heirs preſumptive are ſuch, vvho, if the anceſtor ſhould die immediately, vvould in the preſent circumſtances of things be the heirs; but vvhoſe right of inheritance may be defeated by the contingency of ſome nearer heir being born: as a brother, or nephevv, vvhoſe preſumptive ſucceſſion may be deſtroyed by the birth of a child; or a daugher, vvhoſe preſent hopes may be hereafter cut off by the birth of a ſon. Nay, even if the eſtate hath deſcended, by the death of the ovvner, to ſuch brother, or nephevv, or daughter; in the former caſes the eſtate ſhall be deveſted and taken avvay by the birth of a poſthumous child; and, in the latter, it ſhall alſo be totally deveſted by the birth of a poſthumous ſon.
gloss: Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of presumptuous (“making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right”).
pos: adj
examples: Forgive me for being presumptive, but aren’t you and Mark engaged?
There being therefore tvvo opinions repugnant unto each other, it may not be preſumptive or skepticall in me to doubt of both, and becauſe vve remaine imperfect in the generall theory of Colours, vvee ſhall deliver at preſent a ſhort diſcovery of blacknes, vvherein although perhaps vve afford no greater ſatisfaction then others, yet ſhall our attempts exceed any; for vvee ſhall empirically and ſenſibly diſcourſe hereof, deducing the cauſes of Blackneſſe from ſuch originalls in Nature, as vve doe generally obſerve things are denigrated by Art: […]
The inſolence of your reply to me yeſterday, in the long-room, I might have overlooked, had not your preſumptive emulation in a much more intereſting affair, and a diſcovery vvhich I made this morning, concurred in perſuading me to chaſtiſe your audacity vvith my ſvvord.
gloss: Chiefly in presumptive evidence: providing a reasonable basis for a certain presumption or conclusion to be drawn.
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: The perſon in this ſituation [having a mere right of property without possession or the right of possession of the property] may have the true ultimate property of the lands in himſelf: but by the intervention of certain circumſtances, either by his ovvn negligence, the ſolemn act of his anceſtor, or the determination of a court of juſtice, the preſumptive evidence of that right is ſtrongly in favour of his antagoniſt; vvho has thereby obtained the abſolute right of poſſeſſion.
Though we had seen no land since leaving Calloa, Cape Horn was said to be somewhere to the West of us; and though there was no positive evidence of the fact, the weather encountered might be accounted pretty good presumptive proof.
Related words: overpresumption
overpresumptuous
presumable
presumably
presume
presumed
presumedly
presuming
presumingly
presumingness
presumption
presumption of innocence
presumptuous
presumptuously
presumptuousness
unpresumptuous
unpresumptuously
unpresumptuousness
supposition
Derived words: heiress presumptive
heir presumptive
presumptively
presumptiveness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: предполагаем
roman: predpolagaem
lang: Catalan
word: presumptiu
lang: Dutch
word: vermoedelijk
lang: Dutch
word: verondersteld
lang: Finnish
word: oletettu
lang: Finnish
word: todennäköinen
lang: French
word: présomptif
lang: French
word: présumé
lang: Georgian
word: სავარაუდო
roman: savaraudo
lang: Georgian
word: შესაძლო
roman: šesaʒlo
lang: German
word: präsumtiv
lang: German
word: erwartet
lang: German
word: mutmaßlich
lang: German
word: voraussichtlich
lang: German
word: wahrscheinlich
lang: Hebrew
word: משוער
roman: m'sho'ár
lang: Hindi
word: संदिग्ध
roman: sandigdh
lang: Italian
word: presuntivo
lang: Portuguese
word: presuntivo
lang: Portuguese
word: presumível
lang: Romanian
word: prezumtiv
lang: Russian
word: предполага́емый
roman: predpolagájemyj
lang: Spanish
word: presuntivo