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† ˈsessment Obs.
Also 6 seas(s)-, 6–7 ses-, sesse-, seaz(e)-, 7 seasse-, seize-.
[Aphetic f. assessment; cf. cessment. For the variation of quantity in the root-vowel cf. sess v.]
= assessment in various senses. Also attrib.
[1538in Norwich Pageants (1856) 18 Assembly at Black Fryers, 19 May, 1538, elected Officers; a Sesmant 14s. Charges, 19s 2d. Assembly at Guyldhalle, 9 May, 1539, elected Officers; Assmt. 16s 6d.] c1540Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 239, I marvill greatly that your said manor shold be so highley charged... I could never se no writing of the sesment therof. 1548in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. iii. i. 135 A precept directyd to the Craftes..of London, for payment of their Sessment vnto the poore. 1576Act 18 Eliz. c. 10 §5 By Taxacion and Sessement at one Courte or Lawe⁓daye. 1598Barret Theor. Warres ii. i. 26, I would wish a generall seazement to be made vpon euery parish. 1620–21Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 247 P'd by him for sessement to kinge and churche there, vjs viijd. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xiii. 179 In other seizements you give as you are in the King's books. 1647in Polit. Ball. Commw. (Percy Soc.) 34 The seazement for the lots and subsydyes, The weekly seazements for the trained bands. 1666–7Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 208 Our House yesterday perfected the proviso of 380,000 l. of the Sesment Bill. [Ibid. 209 Bill of Assessment.] |