Noun: assize
| Singular | assize |
| Plural | assizes |
Sample Sentences
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the assize of bread and other provisions
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rent of assize
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the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole [1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:]
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an hundred cubits high by just assize [1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visons”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like assize
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English assise, from Old French assises, feminine plural participle of Old French asseoir (“to sit”), from Latin assidere. See: Middle English Nouns '
assise', Latin Nouns '
assidere'.
Verbs referencing "assize"
Galician Nouns
sisa.