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

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

One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.

, 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.

One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone.

ing associated or joined. We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with .

f ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are re…

One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.

peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.…

One who, or that which, assuages.

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. Pope. The god assumed his native form again. Pope.

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

Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous. Burke.

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence. I dare assure thee that no enemy Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus. Shak.

One whose life or property is insured.

One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology.