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As*sist"er, n. An assistant; a helper.

As*sist"ful (&?;), a. Helpful.

As*sist"ive (&?;), a. Lending aid, helping.

As*sist"less, a. Without aid or help. [R.] Pope.

As*sist"or (&?;), n. (Law) A assister.

As*sith"ment (&?;), n. See Assythment. [Obs.]

As*size" (&?;), n. [OE. assise, asise, OF. assise, F. assises, assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assid&?;re to sit by; ad + sedre to sit. See Sit, Size, and cf. Excise, Assess.] 1. 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. [Obs.]

2. (Law) (a) A special kind of jury or inquest. (b) A kind of writ or real action. (c) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ. (d) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures. (e) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill. [This term is not now used in England in the sense of a writ or real action, and seldom of a jury of any kind, but in Scotch practice it is still technically applied to the jury in criminal cases. Stephen. Burrill. Erskine.] (f) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. Blackstone. Wharton. Encyc. Brit. (g) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. Brande. Wharton. Craig. Burrill. (h) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.

3. Measure; dimension; size. [In this sense now corrupted into size.]

An hundred cubits high by just assize. Spenser.

As*size", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assized (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Assizing.] [From Assize, n.: cf. LL. assisare to decree in assize. Cf. Asses, v.] 1. To assess; to value; to rate. [Obs.] Gower.

2. To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority. [Obs.]

As*siz"er (&?;), n. An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.

As*siz"or (&?;), n. (Scots Law) A juror.

As*so"ber (&?;), v. t. [Pref. ad- + sober. Cf. Ensober.] To make or keep sober. [Obs.] Gower.

As*so`cia*bil"i*ty (&?;), n. The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness. "The associability of feelings." H. Spencer.

As*so"cia*ble (&?;), a. [See Associate.] 1. Capable of being associated or joined.

We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

2. Sociable; companionable. [Obs.]

3. (Med.) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc.

The stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body. Med. Rep.

As*so"cia*ble*ness, n. Associability.

As*so"ci*ate (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Associated (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Associating (&?;).] [L. associatus, p. p. of associare; ad + sociare to join or unite, socius companion. See Social.] 1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.

3. To connect or place together in thought.

He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language. Macaulay.

4. To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.]

Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. Shak.