desume

From Latin desumere, from de + sumere (“to take”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈzjuːm/, /dɪˈzuːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm

desume (third-person singular simple present desumes, present participle desuming, simple past and past participle desumed)

1. (obsolete) To borrow, extract, or select.
   • 1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching the Original of the Common Law of England”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, page 65:

     [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, […]

• “desume”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

desume

1. third-person singular present indicative of desumere

• meduse

dēsūme

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēsūmō