assize

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

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

Origin

• From Middle English assise, from Old French assises, from Latin assidere.