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单词 assizer
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/əˈsʌɪzə/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s assisour, 1600s assyser, 1700s asyser. apheticMiddle English sysour: see sizar n.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman assisour, noun of agent < assiser to assize v.
1. English History. One of those who constituted the assize or inquest, whence the modern jury originated; a sworn recognitor.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury > sworn recognitor
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a1330 Pol. Songs (1839) 344 Assisours that comen to shire and to hundred, Damneth men for silver.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. III. 59 Sysours and somners · shereuyes and here clerkes.
c1400 Gamclyn 864 The twelve sisours that weren of the queste, They schul ben hanged this day, so have I reste.
1617 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 169 Murtherers, fighters, false assisors, and other such malefactors.
2. Scots Law. A juryman. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury
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jurier1486
empanel1569
juryman1579
the twelve men1589
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venire man1781
1436 Act 13 Jas. I c. 1 §2 Al Jugis sal ger þe assisoures swere..þat þai nothir haf tane na sal tak mede.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 13 All the assisours sall sweare, that..they sall nocht laine nor conceale the trueth.
1709 Royal Procl. (Scotl.) in London Gaz. No. 4522/2 We require..our Sheriffs, that they cause sufficient..Men to Compear before our..Judges..for being Asysers and Witnesses.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 V. liv. 275 John Kirkcaldy, a cousin of Grange, had gone to Dunfermline..to act as an assizer or juryman.
3. An officer who had charge of the Assize of Weights and Measures, or who fixed the Assize of Bread and Ale, or of other articles of consumption.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > regulation by a standard > one who
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Warden of the Standards1878
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > regulating prices by standard > one who
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Assizer of Weights and Measures, is an Officer who has the Care and Oversight of those Matters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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