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Any article or separable part of one's assets.

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. Story. Blackstone.

See Asseverate. [Archaic]

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

Asseverative.

To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. J. Peile.

Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.

One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.

Unremitting; assiduous. [Obs.] "Assiduate labor." Fabyan.

tion, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence. I have, with much pains and assiduity, qualified myself for a nomenclator. Addison.

Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting. She grows more assiduous in her attendance. Addison.

To besiege. [Obs.] "Assieged castles." Spenser.

A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract. Bancroft.

A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over. In the order I assign to them. Loudon. The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott.

The quality of being assignable.

Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.