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.
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.
As`ser*to"ri*al (&?;), a. Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical.
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.
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.