different between pronouncement vs assize

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old French prononcement. Doublet of pronunciamento.

Noun

pronouncement (plural pronouncements)

1. An official public announcement.

   The trial concluded with the pronouncement of a guilty verdict.

2. An utterance.
   • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]

     Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

   • March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary

     His pronouncements carried great authority, but his physical difficulties often caused them to be enigmatic in their brevity.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English assise, from Old French assises (sat), from Latin assidere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sa?z/

Noun

assize (plural assizes)

1. A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
2. The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
3. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
4. A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.

   the assize of bread and other provisions

5. Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.

   rent of assize

   • 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus

     the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole

6. (obsolete) Measure; dimension; size.

   • an hundred cubits high by just assize

Translations

Verb

assize (third-person singular simple present assizes, present participle assizing, simple past and past participle assized)

1. (transitive) To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.

References

assize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Saizes