verb

• (transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
• (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
• (transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
• (transitive, obsolete) To reckon to be, to account or esteem as.
• (transitive) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
• (transitive) To put by fraud in the place of another.