assize

From Middle English assise, from Old French assises (sat), from Latin assidere.

assize (plural assizes)

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.

   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.

   rent of assize

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Glanvill to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) Measure; dimension; size.
   • Spenser

     an hundred cubits high by just assize

assize (third-person singular simple present assizes, present participle assizing, simple past and past participle assized)

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

assize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Saizes