assise

Borrowed from French assise.

assise (plural assises)

1. (geology) Two or more beds or strata of rock united by the occurrence of fossils of the same characteristic species or genera.

• bed

• saises

• IPA^(key): /a.siz/

See asseoir.

assise f (plural assises)

1. foundation (supporting base of a wall)
2. (figuratively) base, foundation
3. (geology) stratum, bed, layer (layer of sedimentary rock)
4. (ecology) stratum (layer of vegetation)
5. (anatomy) stratum (layer of tissue)
6. (masonry) course (row or layer of bricks)
7. seat of a chair

assise

1. feminine singular of the past participle of asseoir

   Elle est assise en ce moment-même.

   She is sitting down at this very moment.

assise

1. feminine singular of assis

• assises (further definitions)

assise f (plural assises)

1. (archaic, Lorraine, chiefly plural) fly excrement

• essais

• “assise” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

assise f pl

1. assizes

assise f

1. plural of assiso

• assys, assyse, assyce, assis, assisse, asyse, a-sise, asyce, ascyse, asysse, a-cyse, acyse

From Old French assises, from Latin assideō. Compare syse.

• IPA^(key): /aˈsiːz(ə)/

assise (plural assises)

1. (law) A holding of the court of assize (a regularly-scheduled regional court); an assizes.
2. (law) A legal case for a court of assize.
3. (law) An legal document or text enforcing a standard for an item.
4. (law) An enforced standard measurement of a product's nature (e.g. mass, standard, dimensions, etc.)
5. A method, a way of doing something.
6. A type or sort of something; a variety.
7. Established or standard practice; customary action.
8. A verdict, finding, or conclusion.
9. (religion) The Final Judgment.
10. (law) Any legal text or document; a law.
11. The correct or normal position in a sequential group.
12. (rare) A point of difference; that which makes something distinct.

• English: assize
• Scots: assize (now rare)

• “assīse (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

assise

1. customary, standard, usual

• “assīse (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.