to maintain an argument, to maintain the ground we have taken. To vindicate is to use language and
measures of the strongest kind, in defense of ourselves and those for whom we act. We maintain our
assertions by adducing proofs, facts, or arguments; we are ready to vindicate our rights or interests by
the utmost exertion of our powers.
Asserter
(As*sert"er) n. One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.
The inflexible asserter of the rights of the church.
Milman.
Assertion
(As*ser"tion) n. [L. assertio, fr. asserere.]
1. 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.
2. Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
Assertive
(As*sert"ive) a. Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.
In a confident and assertive form.
Glanvill.
As*sert"ive*ly, adv. — As*sert"ive*ness, n.
Assertor
(As*sert"or) n. [L., fr. asserere.] 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.
Assertorial
(As`ser*to"ri*al) a. Asserting that a thing is; — opposed to problematical and apodeictical.
Assertory
(As*sert"o*ry) a. [L. assertorius, fr. asserere.] 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.
Assess
(As*sess") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assessed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Assessing.] [OF. assesser to regulate,
settle, LL. assessare to value for taxation, fr. L. assidere, supine as if assessum, to sit by, esp. of
judges in a court, in LL. to assess, tax. Cf. Assize, v., Cess.]
1. To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.
2. 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.
3. To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the
club assessed each member twenty-five cents.
4. To fix or determine the rate or amount of.
This sum is assessed and raised upon individuals by commissioners in the act.
Blackstone.
