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State of being aseptic; the methods or processes of asepticizing.

In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick. Knight.

whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. Luke xii. 48. An exigence of state asks a much longer time to conduct a design to maturity. Addison.

In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton.

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate.

In a state of asphyxia; suffocated.

The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. Spenser.

The act of assembling, or the state o In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. Fenton.

A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause. Ray.

t of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay.

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.

executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend. Story. Blackstone.

tors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent.

the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.

as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.

or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.