Assize

Origin

French assises, Latin assidere

Webster 1913|assize

Full definition of assize

Noun

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) Measure; dimension; size.
• Spenseran hundred cubits high by just assize