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- English Word Asset Definition Any article or separable part of one's assets.
- English Word Assets Definition Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend.
- English Word Assets Definition Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts.
- English Word Assets Definition The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.
- English Word Assever Definition See Asseverate.
- English Word Asseverate Definition To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.
- English Word Asseverated Definition of Asseverate
- English Word Asseverating Definition of Asseverate
- English Word Asseveration Definition The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.
- English Word Asseverative Definition Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
- English Word Asseveratory Definition Asseverative.
- English Word Assibilate Definition To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.
- English Word Assibilation Definition Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch.
- English Word Assidean Definition One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.
- English Word Assident Definition Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.
- English Word Assiduate Definition Unremitting; assiduous.
- English Word Assiduities Definition of Assiduity
- English Word Assiduity Definition Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.
- English Word Assiduity Definition Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural.
- English Word Assiduous Definition Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.
- English Word Assiduous Definition Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor.
- English Word Assiege Definition To besiege.
- English Word Assiege Definition A siege.
- English Word Assientist Definition A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract.
- English Word Assiento Definition 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.
- English Word Assign Definition To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
- English Word Assign Definition To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
- English Word Assign Definition To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
- English Word Assign Definition A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
- English Word Assign Definition A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.