Assize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈsaɪz/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Assize is a noun meaning A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
Meaning
A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
More Meanings
- 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.
- (transitive) To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.
- (obsolete) A measure, dimension, or size.
Example Sentences
rent of assize
an hundred cubits high by just assize
the assize of bread and other provisions
the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole
Word Forms
- assizes
- assizing
- assized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include appeal, guidance, penal, foundation, basis, base.
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