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[ adverb ] by reasonable assumption
Synonyms Examples "presumably, he missed the train" Used in print ("Editorials"...)In 1899 , Parliament erected a statue to Cromwell in Westminster , facing Whitehall and there , presumably , he still stands . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)The name presumably derives from the French royal_house which never learned and never forgot ; since Bourbon whiskey , though of Kentucky origin , is at_least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South . (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)Solar activities could presumably bring long periods of flood or drought . (Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm , and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer , McCullough , and Sloanaker , 1958 a , b , c ) , and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen , 1958 ) . (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)Lawrence_E_._Griffin gives measurements of nineteen young anacondas , presumably members of a brood , from `` South_America '' ; the extreme measurements of these fall between the lower_limit of the Brookfield brood and its average . Related terms |
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