English English Dictionary

Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.

Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter.

Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical.

Affirming; maintaining.

of As

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.

To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents.

To fix or determine the rate or amount of.

Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property.

of Assess

One who is assessed.

of Assess

A sitting beside or near.

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property.

The specific sum levied or assessed.

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a "call").

One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.