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assize

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əˈsaɪz/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English assise, from Old French assises, feminine plural participle of Old French asseoir (“to sit”), from Latin assidere.

  1. A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
  2. The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
  3. 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.
  4. A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.

    “the assize of bread and other provisions”

  5. Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.

    “rent of assize”

    “the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole”

  6. A measure, dimension, or size.

    “an hundred cubits high by just assize”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English assise, from Old French assises, feminine plural participle of Old French asseoir (“to sit”), from Latin assidere.

  1. To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.