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acise

acise is the obsolete form of assize.

Meaning of assize

Noun

assize (plural assizes)

  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
  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

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Forms of acise

pluralacises

Questions about acise

What is acise the obsolete form of?
Acise is the obsolete form of assize.

Words near acise in the dictionary

  1. ACIR
  2. Acira
  3. Acireale
  4. acireductone
  5. ACIs
  6. acise
  7. acises
  8. acitretin
  9. aciurgy
  10. acivicin
  11. ACJ

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acise (page history and authors); assize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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