assize
/əˈsaɪz/
assize noun: a session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
Noun
assize (plural assizes)
- 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.
- the assize of bread and other provisions
- 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
- 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
Verb
assize (third-person singular simple present assizes, present participle assizing, simple past and past participle assized)
assize meaning in Tamil
assize in Tamil
- கல் அடுக்கு, விலைக்கட்டுப்பாடு, அளவை வரையரை, ஆணையாளர் விசாரணை முடிபு, மாவட்ட ஆணையாளர் மன்றம், விலை கட்டுப்படுத்து
Forms of assize
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | assizes |
| alternative form (obsolete) | aßize |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | assizes |
| present participle | assizing |
| past participle | assized |
| past | assized |
Origin of assize
From Middle English assise, from Old French assises, feminine plural participle of Old French asseoir (“to sit”), from Latin assidere.
Words formed from assize
Words that rhyme with assize
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- capsize
- comprise
- guise
- revise
- abscise
- agrise
- apprise
- chastise
- despise
- flys
- guys
- lyse
- palatalize
- pies
- prise
- skies
- snies
- sties
- supplies
- surmise
- ties
- tries
- velarize
- aguise
- applies
- authorize
- ayes
- belies
- brise
- buys
- byes
- complies
- cries
- dies
- dries
- dyes
- excise
- eyes
- flies
- flyes
- four eyes
- frankenpies
- fries
- Frise
- hies
- highs
- home fries
- i's
Questions about assize
- What does assize mean?
- Assize means a session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
- What is assize in Tamil?
- Assize in Tamil is கல் அடுக்கு, விலைக்கட்டுப்பாடு, அளவை வரையரை. See Assize meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is assize?
- Assize can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce assize?
- Assize is pronounced /əˈsaɪz/.
- What is the plural of assize?
- The plural of assize is assizes.
Words near assize in the dictionary
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