| 单词 |
assizer |
| 释义 |
assizer, -or|əˈsaɪzə(r)|
Also 4–6 assisour, 7 assyser, 8 asyser. Aphet. 4 sysour: see sizar.
[a. AF. assisour, n. of agent f. assiser to assize.]
1. Eng. Hist. One of those who constituted the assize or inquest, whence the modern jury originated; a sworn recognitor.
a1330Pol. Songs (1839) 344 Assisours that comen to shire and to hundred, Damneth men for silver. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. III. 59 Sysours and somners · shereuyes and here clerkes. c1400Gamclyn 864 The twelve sisours that weren of the queste, They schul ben hanged this day, so have I reste. 1617Daniel Hist. Eng. 169 Murtherers, fighters, false assisors, and other such malefactors.
2. Sc. Law. A juryman. Obs. exc. Hist.
1436Act 13 James I, i. §2 Al Jugis sal ger þe assisoures swere..þat þai nothir haf tane na sal tak mede. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 13 All the assisours sall sweare, that..they sall nocht laine nor conceale the trueth. 1709Royal Procl. (Scotl.) in Lond. Gaz. No. 4522/2 We require..our Sheriffs, that they cause sufficient..Men to Compear before our..Judges..for being Asysers and Witnesses. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. V. liv. 45 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.
1751Chambers Cycl., Assiser..of weights and measures, is an officer who has the care and oversight of those matters. |
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