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1.nounA session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
2.nounThe verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
3.nounAn assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
4.nounA statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures."the assize of bread and other provisions"
5.nounAnything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc."rent of assize"
6.nounMeasure; dimension; size.
7.nounA trial or hearing before such a court.