Definition of "assize"

assize

/əˈsaɪz/

noun
plural assizes
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.
  Quotations
  the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole
  1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus
6. (obsolete) Measure; dimension; size.
  Quotations
  an hundred cubits high by just assize
  1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visons”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […]
verb
third-person singular simple present assizes, present participle assizing, simple past and past participle assized
1. (transitive) To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.