assize

assizenoun/əˈsaɪz/

• 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
  • the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole
• 6

  obsoleteA measure, dimension, or size.

  • an hundred cubits high by just assize

assizeverb/əˈsaɪz/

• 1

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