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assertory, a.|əˈsɜːtərɪ|
[ad. L. assertōrius, f. assertor assertor: see -ory.]
1. Of the nature of, or characterized by, assertion; assertive, affirmative.
1639Rouse Heav. Univ. v. (1702) 69 Having a commission that is Promulgatory and Assertory of what is past. a1733North Exam. i. iii. ⁋93. 188 The greatest Part of these assertory Transactions. 1810Coleridge Friend vi. viii. (1867) 319 The mode..in Lord Bacon is dogmatic, i.e. assertory.
b. esp. in assertory oath: one taken in support of a present statement, as distinguished from a promissory oath, which guarantees a future action.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. x. 502 How many oaths are taken in Courts daily, both assertory and promissory. 1652E. Marbury Comm. Habak. (1868) 202 An oath..is assertory when we do call God to witness against our souls, if we affirm not the truth. 1823Bentham Not Paul 258 By an oath every one understands at first mention an assertory, not a promissory declaration; by a vow, a promissory, not an assertory one.
2. in Logic. = assertorial.
1837Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxiii. (1859) II. 70 The cognition, therefore, is assertory, inasmuch as the reality of that, its object, is given unconditionally as a fact. 1838― Logic xiv. (1866) I. 260 A proposition is called Assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. |