Assize
[ə'saɪz] or [ə'saɪzɪz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property.
(noun.) the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) 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.
(n.) A special kind of jury or inquest.
(n.) A kind of writ or real action.
(n.) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.
(n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.
(n.) Measure; dimension; size.
(v.) To assess; to value; to rate.
(v.) To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.
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解釋/意思:
v.t. to assess: to set or fix the quantity or price.—n. a statute settling the weight measure or price of anything: (Scot.) a trial by jury the jury: judgment sentence the Last Judgment: (pl.) the sessions or sittings of a court held periodically in English counties at which causes are tried by judges of the High Court of Justice on circuit and a jury.—n. Assiz′er an officer who inspects weights and measures.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The assize of bread is, so far as I know, the only remnant of this ancient usage. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Such lawing also shall be done by the assize commonly used, and which is, that three claws shall be cut off without the ball of the right foot. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- If the country folks of those assize towns on his circuit could see him now! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Whether he could rush to the next assizes, and proclaim himself a lawyer? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- You'll every one of you be hanged at the next assizes, if you don't mind, said Fred, who afterwards laughed heartily as he remembered his own phrases. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The season of the assizes approached. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The men tried at the assizes are not all over-religious, I suppose. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The evidence against him was so strong that the case has been referred to the Assizes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- You are yourself aware that you will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the Assizes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I give you my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at the Assizes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
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