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Assize vs Assise - What's the difference?

assize | assise |

As a noun assize

is a session or inquiry made before a court or jury.

As a proper noun assise is

assisi.

assize

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
  • The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
  • 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.
  • A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.
    • the assize of bread and other provisions
  • Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.
    • rent of assize
    (Glanvill)
  • (obsolete) Measure; dimension; size.
  • * Spenser
    • an hundred cubits high by just assize

    assise

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia assise) (en noun)
  • (geology) two or more beds or strata of rock united by the occurrence of fossils of the same characteristic species or genera.

    • Synonyms

    * bed ----