English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Assessor
(v.)
One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an
assistant and adviser; an associate in office.
Assessor
(v.)
One appointed to assess persons or property for the
purpose of taxation.
Assessorial
(a.)
Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of
assessors.
Assessorship
(n.)
The office or function of an assessor.
Asset
(n.)
Any article or separable part of one's assets.
Assets
(n. pl.)
Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the
payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient
to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and
legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend.
Assets
(n. pl.)
Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable
to the payment of debts.
Assets
(n. pl.)
The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a
person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a
trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.
Assever
(v. t.)
See Asseverate.
Asseverate
(v. t.)
To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.
Asseverated
(imp. & p. p.)
of Asseverate
Asseverating
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Asseverate
Asseveration
(n.)
The act of asseverating, or that which is
asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.
Asseverative
(a.)
Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
Asseveratory
(a.)
Asseverative.
Assibilate
(v. t.)
To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.
Assibilation
(n.)
Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of
-tion to -shun, duke to ditch.
Assidean
(n.)
One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic
Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.
Assident
(a.)
Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident
signs, or symptoms.
Assiduate
(a.)
Unremitting; assiduous.