assize — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.

2. The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.

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. A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.

   Examples

   the assize of bread and other provisions

5. Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.

   Examples

   rent of assize

   the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole

6. A measure, dimension, or size.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   an hundred cubits high by just assize

Verb

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

   Usage

   • Transitive

Noun

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

   Broader terms

   regulationordinance

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

   Broader terms

   writjudicial writ