English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Assertion
(n.)
Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's
rights or prerogatives.
Assertive
(a.)
Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative;
peremptory.
Assertor
(n.)
One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates
a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender;
an asserter.
Assertorial
(a.)
Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical
and apodeictical.
Assertory
(a.)
Affirming; maintaining.
Asses
(pl. )
of As
Assess
(v.)
To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for
the purpose of taxation.
Assess
(v.)
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.
Assess
(v.)
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.
Assess
(v.)
To fix or determine the rate or amount of.
Assessable
(a.)
Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable
property.
Assessed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Assess
Assessee
(n.)
One who is assessed.
Assessing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Assess
Assession
(n.)
A sitting beside or near.
Assessment
(n.)
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.
Assessment
(n.)
The specific sum levied or assessed.
Assessment
(n.)
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.
Assessment
(n.)
An apportionment of a subscription for stock into
successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England
termed a "call").
Assessor
(v.)
One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an
assistant and adviser; an associate in office.