assize

Meanings

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

1. To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.

Etymology

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