
‖n. [ F. (cf. Sp. ardacina), fr. ardasse a kind of silk thread, fr. Ar. & Per. ardan a kind of raw silk. ] A very fine sort of Persian silk. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. (cf. It. assassino), fr. Ar. ‘hashishin one who has drunk of the hashish. Under its influence the Assassins of the East, followers of the
v. t. To assassinate. [ Obs. ] Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Such usage as your honorable lords
Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. assassinat. ]
If I had made an assassinate upon your father. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. An assassin. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Murderous. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ L. assibilatus, p. p. of assibilare to hiss out; ad + sibilare to hiss. ] To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. J. Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Heb. khāsad to be pious. ] One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. assidens, p. pr. of assid&unr_;re to sit by: cf. F. assident. See Assession. ] (Med.) Usually attending a disease, but not always;
a. [ L. assiduatus, p. p. of assiduare to use assiduously. ] Unremitting; assiduous. [ Obs. ] “Assiduate labor.” Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
I have, with much pains and assiduity, qualified myself for a nomenclator. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. assiduus, fr. assid&unr_;re to sit near or close; ad + sedēre to sit. See Sit. ]
She grows more assiduous in her attendance. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
To weary him with my assiduous cries. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ OE. asegen, OF. asegier, F. assiéger, fr. LL. assediare, assidiare, to besiege. See Siege. ] To besiege. [ Obs. ] “Assieged castles.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A siege. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. assientiste, Sp. asentista. ] A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ Sp. asiento seat, contract or agreement, fr. asentar to place on a chair, to adjust, to make an agreement; a (L. ad) + sentar, a participial verb; as if there were a L. sedentare to cause to sit, fr. sedens, sedentis, p. pr. of sed&unr_;re to sit. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
In the order I assign to them. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]
The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]
He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]
All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
It is not easy to assign a period more eventful. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
To assign dower,
v. i. (Law) To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ From Assign, v. ] A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Assignee. ] (Law) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred;
n. The quality of being assignable. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated;
‖n. [ F. assignat, fr. L. assignatus, p. p. of assignare. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. assignatio, fr. assignare: cf. F. assignation. ]
This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
House of assignation,
n. [ F. assigné, p. p. of assigner. See Assign, v., and cf. Assign an assignee. ] (Law)
n. One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ LL. assignamentum: cf. OF. assenement. ]
Assignment of dower,
☞ Assignment is also used in law as convertible with specification; assignment of error in proceedings for review being specification of error; and assignment of perjury or fraud in indictment being specifications of perjury or fraud. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. assignator. Cf. Assigner. ] (Law) An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest;
n. The quality of being assimilable. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes
Assimilate all objects. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]
His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. Merivale. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]
I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. tending to or characterized by or causing assimilation (being absorbed into or incorporated).
n. [ L. assimilatio: cf. F. assimilation. ]
To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]
Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. LL. assimilativus, F. assimilatif. ] Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation;
a. Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation;
v. t. [ L. assimulatus, p. p. of assimulare, equiv. to assimilare. See Assimilate, v. t. ]
n. [ L. assimulatio, equiv. to assimilatio. ] Assimilation. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Asinego. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate. [ 1913 Webster ]
Such . . . appear to be of the assich kind . . . Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
With God not parted from him, as was feared,
But favoring and assisting to the end. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. assistance. ]
Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wat Tyler [ was ] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. assistant, p. pr. of assister. ]
Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone. [ 1913 Webster ]