ASSIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assize mean? 

• ASSIZE (noun)
  The noun ASSIZE has 2 senses:

1. the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale

2. an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property

  Familiarity information: ASSIZE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSIZE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("assize" is a kind of...):

ordinance; regulation (an authoritative rule)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("assize" is a kind of...):

judicial writ; writ ((law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

 Context examples 

The season of the assizes approached.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Whether he could rush to the next assizes, and proclaim himself a lawyer?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He spoke to him as before, over his shoulder and in the same tone of voice, rather high, so that all the room might hear, but perfectly calm and steady: If you do not put that knife this instant in your pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at the next assizes.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The American, Abe Slaney, was condemned to death at the winter assizes at Norwich, but his penalty was changed to penal servitude in consideration of mitigating circumstances, and the certainty that Hilton Cubitt had fired the first shot.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"There is nothing so bad as a separation. I am quite of your opinion. I know what it is, for Mr Musgrove always attends the assizes, and I am so glad when they are over, and he is safe back again."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)