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| assumption |
(cap.) in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and certain other Christian churches, the feast day that commemorates the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Assumption is celebrated on August 15. [1/5 definitions] |
| bar mitzvah |
a Jewish ceremony that celebrates a boy's adulthood and the assumption of his religious duties, usu. occurring at the age of thirteen. (Cf. bat mitzvah.) [1/2 definitions] |
| lead on |
to entice into making a false assumption or taking an inappropriate or unwise course of action. |
| principle |
a law, doctrine, or assumption on which action or behavior is based. [1/4 definitions] |
| put one's foot in one's mouth |
to say something regrettable, sometimes revealing one's own or another's secret by accident or revealing an opinion or assumption that should not have been stated openly. |
| say |
to suppose or take as an assumption. [1/16 definitions] |
| supposition |
something that is supposed; assumption; hypothesis. [1/2 definitions] |
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