desume means to borrow, extract, or select.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, desume ranks #1,028 of 20,708 for Qualifying.
desume is pronounced /dɪˈzjuːm/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēsūmō, dēsūmere, from dē- + sūmere (“to take”).
verb
- 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, […]”