Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Assumed \As*sumed"\, a.
   1. Supposed.

   2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed
      character.

Assume \As*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assumed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Assuming}.] [L. assumere; ad + sumere to take; sub +
   emere to take, buy: cf. F. assumer. See {Redeem}.]
   1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and
      demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take
      unjustly.

            Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
                                                  --Pope.

            The god assumed his native form again. --Pope.

   2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a
      fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.

            The consequences of assumed principles. --Whewell.

   3. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

            Ambition assuming the mask of religion. --Porteus.

            Assume a virtue, if you have it not.  --Shak.

   4. To receive or adopt.

            The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and
            lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   Syn: To arrogate; usurp; appropriate.

Source : WordNet®

assumed
     adj 1: accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase
            in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence";
            "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for
            granted" [syn: {assumptive}, {taken for granted(p)}]
     2: taken as your right without justification; "was hearing
        evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated
        powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states"
        [syn: {arrogated}]
     3: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed
        cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy";
        "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham
        modesty" [syn: {false}, {fictitious}, {fictive}, {pretended},
         {put on}, {sham}]