assize
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Etymology edit
From Middle English assise, from Old French assises, from Latin assidere.
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assize (plural assizes)
- A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
- The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
- An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
- A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.
- the assize of bread and other provisions
- Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.
- rent of assize
- 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:
- the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole
- (obsolete) Measure; dimension; size.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visons”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- an hundred cubits high by just assize
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a session or inquiry made before a court or jury
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Verb edit
assize (third-person singular simple present assizes, present participle assizing, simple past and past participle assized)
- (transitive) To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.
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- “assize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.