assize

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
2. noun The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
3. noun 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. noun A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.

   the assize of bread and other provisions

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

   rent of assize

6. noun A measure, dimension, or size.
7. verb To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.

Similar words

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Often followed by

of court and courts in was sermon or town

Word family

assizes