An assumption that the speaker considers very unlikely to be true but temporarily accepts in order to make a hypothetical argument.

plural of heroic medicine

(mythology) One of the five ages of man, the period at which semidivine and human heroes are purported to have lived, between the arrival of the Greeks to Thessaly and the Greek return from Troy.

plural of heroic dose

A particularly large dose of a drug, administered in an emergency as heroic medicine, or (in the case of recreational drugs) to produce very pronounced hallucinogenic effects.

plural of heroic assumption