Assistor
(As*sist"or) n. (Law) A assister.
Assithment
(As*sith"ment) n. See Assythment. [Obs.]
Assize
(As*size") n. [OE. assise, asise, OF. assise, F. assises, assembly of judges, the decree pronounced
by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assidre to sit by; ad + sedere to sit.
See Sit, Size, and cf. Excise, Assess.]
1. 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. [Obs.]
2. (Law) (a) A special kind of jury or inquest. (b) A kind of writ or real action. (c) A verdict or finding
of a jury upon such writ. (d) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating
the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the
assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures. (e)
Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as,
rent of assize. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill. [This term is not now
used in England in the sense of a writ or real action, and seldom of a jury of any kind, but in Scotch
practice it is still technically applied to the jury in criminal cases. Stephen. Burrill. Erskine.] (f) A
court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and
jury. Blackstone. Wharton. Encyc. Brit. (g) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior
courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination
of civil and criminal cases; — usually in the plural. Brande. Wharton. Craig. Burrill. (h) The time
or place of holding the court of assize; — generally in the plural, assizes.
3. Measure; dimension; size. [In this sense now corrupted into size.]
An hundred cubits high by just assize.
Spenser.
[Formerly written, as in French, assise.]
Assize
(As*size"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Assizing.] [From Assize, n.: cf. LL.
assisare to decree in assize. Cf. Asses, v.]
1. To assess; to value; to rate. [Obs.] Gower.
2. To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority. [Obs.]
Assizer
(As*siz"er) n. An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.
Assizor
(As*siz"or) n. (Scots Law) A juror.
Assober
(As*so"ber) v. t. [Pref. ad- + sober. Cf. Ensober.] To make or keep sober. [Obs.] Gower.
Associability
(As*so`cia*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness.
"The associability of feelings." H. Spencer.
Associable
(As*so"cia*ble) a. [See Associate.]
1. Capable of being associated or joined.
We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another.
H. Spencer.
2. Sociable; companionable. [Obs.]
