assizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 assise, from Old French assises, feminine plural participle of Old French asseoir (“to sit”), from Latin assidere.

発音

• IPA: /əˈsaɪz/
• 韻: -aɪz

名詞

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

   • 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:

     the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole

6. (obsolete) A measure, dimension, or size.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visons”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     an hundred cubits high by just assize

派生語

動詞

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.

派生語

参照

• “assize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Saizes