Assize

Definition: Assize

Assize

Noun

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.

Date "assize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Judge	Noun: judge; justice, justiciar, justiciary; chancellor; justice of assize, judge of assize; recorder, common sergeant; puisne judge, assistant judge, county court judge; conservator of the peace, justice of the peace; J.P.; court; (tribunal); magistrate, police magistrate, beak; his worship, his honor, his lordship.
Measurement	Noun: measurement, admeasurement, mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize; estimate, estimation; dead reckoning, reckoning; (numeration); gauging; Verb: horse power.
Tribunal	Assize, eyre; wardmote, burghmote; barmote; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council; board of green cloth.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Assize

English words defined with "assize": Assized, Assizing ♦ Maiden assize ♦ Oyer and terminer ♦ Recognitor. (references)

Specialty definitions using "assize": Black Assize ♦ Sizings. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Calendar of Assize Records Essex Indictments, Elizabeth I (reference) London Assize of Nuisance, 1301-1431: A Calendar (reference) The Assize of the Dying (reference) The Bloody assize (reference) Western circuit assize orders, 1629-1648 : a calendar (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	Kuwait	The judicial system includes courts of the first degree (criminal assize, magistrates, civil, domestic and commercial courts), a Misdemeanors Court of Appeal, a High Court of Appeal (for civil cases) and a Court of Cassation (in limited cases). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Assize" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Assize" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	93.33%	42	52,864
Noun (proper)	6.67%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	45	N/A

Expressions using "assize": assize court ♦ court of assize ♦ court of assize and nisi prius ♦ Maiden assize. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "assize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjykatë penale. (various references)

Arabic		‏محكمة (court, court of justice, court of law, judgement, tribunal), ‏قانون يحدد الموازين, ‏جلسات دورية للفصل فى الجنائيات. (various references)

Bulgarian		съдене, установен стандарт, осъждане (condemnation, conviction, crimination, denouncement, denunciation, deprecation, reprobation, repudiation), присъда (adjudication, award, decision, judgement, judgment, pronouncement, sentence, verdict). (various references)

Czech		soudní zasedání. (various references)

Finnish		asian siirtäminen käsiteltäväksi rikostuomioistuimessa (to refer a case to the assize court). (various references)

French		renvoi devant les assises (to refer a case to the assize court). (various references)

German		Verweisung an das Schwurgericht (to refer a case to the assize court). (various references)

Greek		δικαστήριο (bench, court, court of justice, courthouse, forum, law court, tribunal). (various references)

Hebrew		ישיבת בית משפט. (various references)

Hungarian		bírói tárgyalás, bírói határozat (adjudication). (various references)

Italian		verdetto (finding, judgement, judgment, verdict), inchiesta (enquiry, inquest, inquiry, investigation, poll), corte (court, Eyre). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		立法府 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		りっぽうふ. (various references)

Manx		quaiyl chimmee (assize court). (various references)

Pig Latin		assizeay

Portuguese		veredito (deliverance, sentence, verdict), sessão de tribunal de direito, julgamento (adjudgment, doom, judgement, judgment, trial, verdict). (various references)

Romanian		şedinţã a tribunalului. (various references)

Russian		судебное разбирательство. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zasedanje porotnog suda, uredba (law, statute). (various references)

Spanish		jurado (juror, jury, juryman, panel). (various references)

Swedish		rättegång (action, case, law suit, lawsuit, process, pursuit, suit, trial), lagstiftande församlings möte, förhör (catechism, examination, hearing, inquest, inquiry, interrogation, quiz, test). (various references)

Turkish		kurul kararı, hüküm (adjudication, authority, award, conclusion, decision, deliverance, dicta, dictum, doom, estimate, fiat, judgement, operation, predication, provision, proviso, rule, ruling, sentence, statute, verdict). (various references)

Ukrainian		судовий розгляд, суд присяжних, твердо установлена ціна. (various references)

Welsh		brawdlys (assize-court). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	RM:Assisas federalas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "assize": assizes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Assize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arsizio, Asie, Asioz, asise, Asitz, asize, assez, assi, Assilek, assis, assisa, assise, assisi, assiso, assisy, assuie, assuse, Azaiez, Aziza, Azize, Azizi, azizur, Ezeiza, kassite, msgsize, sasie, sasine. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-s-s-z"
	-1 letter: sizes.
	-2 letters: seas, seis, size.
	-3 letters: ais, ass, ess, sae, sea, sei, sis.
	-4 letters: ae, ai, as, es, is, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-s-s-z"
	+1 letter: assizes.
	+2 letters: azotises, capsizes, haziness, laziness, maziness, mestizas, zaniness.
	+3 letters: craziness, jazziness, nasalizes, salinizes, sanitizes, satirizes, simazines, sleaziest, snazziest, solarizes, suzerains, tristezas.
	+4 letters: capsulizes, classicize, emphasizes, fantasizes, hazinesses, kazatskies, lazinesses, mazinesses, ostracizes, sensualize, serializes, sexualizes, signalizes, sleaziness, sloganizes, socializes, stabilizes, summarizes, trapezists, visualizes, zaninesses.
	+5 letters: absolutizes, accessorize, aerosolizes, apostatizes, bastardizes, bestializes, bizarreness, classicized, classicizes, crazinesses, crystalizes, desalinizes, fantasizers, jazzinesses, metastasize, mizzenmasts, musicalizes, parasitizes, pasteurizes, plasticizes, prussianize, quizmasters, rhapsodizes, scandalizes, schematizes, schismatize, schmalziest, secularizes, sensualized, sensualizes, shmaltziest, sizableness, socializers, specializes, stabilizers, stigmatizes, strategizes, summarizers, sympathizes, systematize, trapeziuses, visualizers.
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