Verb

(en verb)

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author=Colin Allen , title=Do I See What You See? , volume=100, issue=2, page=168 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}

he would often assert his beliefs to us

To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

to assert one's authority

Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)

Verb

(en verb)

To pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ () — a defect common amongst children.

To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.

* Alexander Pope

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, / I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.

To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.

* Drayton

Lest when my lisping , guilty tongue should halt.

To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.

* Tyndale

to speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again

To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.

to lisp treason