Desume
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To borrow, extract, or select. obsolete
"[T]hoſe Laws, if convenient and uſeful for the Kingdom, were never the worſe, tho' they were deſumed and taken from the Laws of other Countries, ſo as they had their Stamp of Obligation and Authority from the Reception and Approbation of this Kingdom by Vertue of the Common Law, […]"
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"[T]hoſe Laws, if convenient and uſeful for the Kingdom, were never the worſe, tho' they were deſumed and taken from the Laws of other Countries, ſo as they had their Stamp of Obligation and Authority from the Reception and Approbation of this Kingdom by Vertue of the Common Law, […]"
Etymology
From Latin desumere, from de + sumere (“to take”).
More for "desume"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.