| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | as·size |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -s z |
| NOUN: | 1a. A session of a court. b. A decree or edict rendered at such a session. 2a. An ordinance regulating weights and measures and the weights and prices of articles of consumption. b. The standards so established. 3. Law A judicial inquest, the writ by which it is instituted, or the verdict of the jurors. 4. assizes a. One of the periodic court sessions formerly held in each of the counties of England and Wales for the trial of civil or criminal cases. b. The time or place of such sessions. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English assise, from Old French, from past participle of asseoir, to seat, from Latin assid re, to sit beside. See assiduous.
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