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noun

IPA: /əˈsaɪz/

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The correct spelling is assize. A session or inquiry made before a court or jury. For example: "the assize of bread and other provisions"

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Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
  2. 2.The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
  3. 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. 4.A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.
  5. 5.Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.

verb

  1. 1.To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.

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