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Definition of Assizer
1. n. An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.
Definition of Assizer
1. Noun. An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assizer
1. an officer in charge of weights and measures [n -S]
Literary usage of Assizer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire by Thomson Gale (Firm) (1877)
"Neilson was admitted to be an assizer against Margaret Wallace, though he was
brother-in-law to John Nicol who had given information for raising the ditty, ..."
2. The Great Revolt of 1381 by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1906)
"This same Thursday the commons came to St. Martin's-le-Grand, and tore away from
the high altar a certain Roger Legett, a great 'assizer'1, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To ASSIZE, (as-size') va To fix the rate. assizer, (as-si'-zer) 7?. s. An officer
that has the care of weights and measures. ASSOCI AB LE, (as-so'-she-a-bl) ..."
4. History of Trial by Jury by William Forsyth (1875)
"... My lord justice- general, I have been an assizer in this court above twenty
times, and never heard a witness interrogate upon the same thing more than ..."
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