ASSUMPTION

ASSUMPTION, Assumptio, a Feast celebrated in the Roman Church, in honour of the miraculous Ascent of the Holy Virgin Body and Soul, into Heaven. See FEAST, VIRGIN, &c.

This Word is compounded of the Latin ad, to, and sumo, I take. This Feast is held with great Solemnity both in the Eastern and Western Churches.—Yet is not the Assumption of our Lady any Point of Faith. The ancient Martyrologies speak of it with a great deal of reserve, as a thing not yet fully ascertained: Though a Divine who should now deny it, would be obliged to retract.



The Sorbonne, in the Year 1696, in the Condemnation of Mary of Agreda, protested, among other things, that they believed that the Holy Virgin was assumed, or taken into Heaven, Body and Soul.

ASSUMPTION was also among our Ancestors, used for the Day of the Death of any Saint: Quia ejus anima in Coelum assumitur.

ASSUMPTION, in Logic, is the Minor, or second Proposition; in a categorical Syllogism. See MINOR, SYLLOGISM, &c.

ASSUMPTION is sometimes also used for a Consequence drawn from the Propositions whereof an Argument is composed. See CONSEQUENCE.

Thus we say, the Premises are true, but the Assumption is captious. See PREMISE, &c.

ASSUMPTION