assize
verbEtymology 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.
assize
noun/əˈsaɪz/
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 whole1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:
6
Obsolete A measure, dimension, or size.
- an hundred cubits high by just assize1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visons”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- Great Assize, maiden assize