What does assize mean?
Assize means A session or inquiry made before a court or jury..
Assize
/əˈsaɪz/ · noun
Meaning
A session or inquiry made before a court or jury..
Definitions by Sense
- 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.
- Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.
- (obsolete) A measure, dimension, or size.
- (transitive) To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.
Example Sentences
the assize of bread and other provisions
rent of assize
the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole
an hundred cubits high by just assize
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Word Forms
- assizes
- aßize
- assizing
- assized
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the assize of bread and other provisions
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