Definition of "assize" in English

noun

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.

   • the assize of bread and other provisions

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

   • rent of assize

6. (obsolete) A measure, dimension, or size.

verb

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