assertory
English
Etymology
From Latin assertōrius, from asserō (“assert”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈsɜː(ɹ)təɹi/
Adjective
assertory (comparative more assertory, superlative most assertory)
- Affirming; maintaining.
- 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], OCLC 1179639832:
- But these oaths were with men, we must promise by simple testimony, not only assertory
- 1823, Jeremy Bentham, Not Paul, But Jesus
- an assertory, not a promissory, declaration
- c. 1858, William Hamilton, Lectures on Logic
- A proposition is called Assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual;
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for assertory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)