† ˈsessment Obs.
Also 6 seas(s)-, 6–7 ses-, sesse-, seaz(e)-, 7 seasse-, seize-.
[Aphetic f. assessment; cf. cessment. For the variation of quantity in the root-vowel cf. sess v.]
= assessment in various senses. Also attrib.
| [1538 in Norwich Pageants (1856) 18 Assembly at Black Fryers, 19 May, 1538, elected Officers; a Sesmant 14s. Charges, 19s 2{supd}. Assembly at Guyldhalle, 9 May, 1539, elected Officers; Assmt. 16s 6{supd}.] c 1540 Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 239, I marvill greatly that your said manor shold be so highley charged... I could never se no writing of the sesment therof. 1548 in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. iii. i. 135 A precept directyd to the Craftes..of London, for payment of their Sessment vnto the poore. 1576 Act 18 Eliz. c. 10 §5 By Taxacion and Sessement at one Courte or Lawe⁓daye. 1598 Barret Theor. Warres ii. i. 26, I would wish a generall seazement to be made vpon euery parish. 1620–21 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 247 P'd by him for sessement to kinge and churche there, vjs viij{supd}. 1636 Featly Clavis Myst. xiii. 179 In other seizements you give as you are in the King's books. 1647 in Polit. Ball. Commw. (Percy Soc.) 34 The seazement for the lots and subsydyes, The weekly seazements for the trained bands. 1666–7 Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 208 Our House yesterday perfected the proviso of 380,000 l. of the Sesment Bill. [Ibid. 209 Bill of Assessment.] |