单词 | assessor |
释义 | assessorn. 1. A person who sits beside; (hence) a person who shares another's position, rank, or dignity. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > one's social equal(s) fellowc1225 compeera1400 evenhead?a1400 checkmate?1504 comparec1540 mate1563 collateral1623 assessor1667 grade1827 Jones1879 peer1940 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 679 Whence to his Son Th' Assessor of his Throne he thus began. View more context for this quotation 1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome (Commod.) i. 186 Gone up to Heaven, to be a Companion and an Assessor with the Gods. 1842 T. De Quincey Philos. Herodotus in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 21/2 He justifies his majestic station as a brotherly assessor on the same throne with Homer. 2. A person who sits as assistant or adviser to a judge or magistrate; esp. a skilled assistant competent to advise on technical points of law, commercial usage, navigation, etc. (The earliest sense in English.) ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > assessor beside-sitter1340 assessorc1380 affeeror1523 lateral judge1611 co-assessor1644 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 33 Newe religious assessours of þes vnkunnynge worldely prelatis. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle i. xi. 8 Come to oure jugementes, to here and to see as assessours, that ryght be performed. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) v. xviii. 220/2 The Juge, the aduocate, the accessour. 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica ix. 113 How religious then ought Judges to be, who are Almighty God's assessours. 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 97 He has his assessors who sit with him, when there are any complaints to be heard. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 6 The body of unlearned assessors, termed Jurors or Jurymen. 1883 Law Times 20 Oct. 409/1 The court on the trial of a patent case may call in the aid of a specially qualified assessor. 3. a. A person who assesses taxes. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > [noun] > fixing amount of tax > one who assesses taxer1377 taxator1424 gauger1483 sessor1496 cessor1565 modifier1570 stentor1574 layer1602 mise-layer1604 assessor1611 stentmaster1624 list-maker1666 lay-layer1669 lister1682 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tauxeur, a rater, taxer, assessor. a1618 W. Raleigh Cabinet-council (1658) xix. 50 The Assessors of Taxes may be elected of the meaner sort of people. 1835 H. Reeve tr. A. de Tocqueville Democracy in Amer. I. v. 119 In New England the assessor fixes the rate of taxes. b. A person who officially estimates the value of property or income for purposes of taxation. ΚΠ 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation i. iv. 140 The assessors, having no means of learning whether individuals have 130l., 140l., or 150l. a-year. 4. transferred or figurative in senses 1 – 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > sequel assessor1625 dreg1639 deuteropathy1651 sequela1797 sequel1897 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun] > one who appraises peisera1382 praiser1424 judge1485 sessor1496 esteemer1551 count-maker1556 rater1611 estimatora1665 appraiser1688 assessor1722 appreciator1728 prizer1749 valuer1799 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 21 Other accidents..are called..assessors or assistants to the disease. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 173 Bodily inclinations and passions [where reason] allows them to be as it were assessors to it upon the throne, are of admirable use in life. 1841 T. De Quincey Homer & Homeridae in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 625/2 Pisistratus summoned seventy men of letters..as critical assessors upon these poems. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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