1lawpresumptive, of such nature that an assumption or inference can be made:
(
c.1292; MS: c.1300
)
Car presumptive resoun est en teu cas, qe [...]
i 294.2
2arrogant, overconfident:
(
c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex
)
Au presumptive gent [...] en l'evangile Dieu disoit: ‘Je vous ay [...] honouré, Et vous par orguillous endroit [...] M’avetz au fin deshonouré’
1573
s.
1one who is arrogant, overconfident:
(
c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex
)
[...] et ensi folement Se contient sanz amendement Ly presumptif deinz son corage
1596
presumptif (c.1292)