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A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.

agreement; acquiescence. Faith is the assent to any proposition, on the credit of the proposer. Locke. The assent, if not the approbation, of the prince. Prescott. Too many people read this ribaldry with assent and admiration. Macaulay. Royal assent, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed b…

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

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

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.

One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation. Bouvier.

a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.

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

dical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. Brande. Wharton. Craig. Burrill.

To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting…

o classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods.

ollection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.

To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively. The consequences of assumed principles. Whewell.

Supposed.

One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition. Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong. Dryden.

g-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. -- Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the aërial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire.

Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

Building up; constructive; -- opposed to destructive. [Obs.]