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ngly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause. Ray.

One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor. The inflexible asserter of the rights of the church. Milman.

The act 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.

Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory. In a confident and assertive form. Glanvill. As*sert"ive*ly, adv. -- As*sert"ive*ness, n.

One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter. The assertors of liberty said not a word. Macaulay. Faithful assertor of thy country's cause. Prior.

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

Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.

To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so. Let us hope . . . we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature. Walsh.

A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.

asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; hence, putting one's self forward in a confident or assuming manner.

The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.

Disposed to self-assertion; self-asserting.

emn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.

to reckon. [Obs.] s other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. Milton. -- To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty. -- To take account of, or to take into account, to…

Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review.

Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

One who affirms or asserts.

The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial.

That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering "yes" to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote.