desume
verb/dɪˈzjuːm/ · /dɪˈzuːm/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin dēsūmō, dēsūmere, from dē- + sūmere (“to take”).
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Obsolete To borrow, extract, or select.
- [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, […]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: