assientist
English
Alternative forms
- Assientist
Etymology
Compare French assientiste, Spanish asentista.
Noun
assientist (plural assientists)
- (historical) A shareholder of the Assiento company involved in the slave trade.
- (historical) One of the parties to the Assiento contract.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- as England gained the assiento , it was agreed that the agents of the assientists might enter all the ports of Spanish America
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
References
- assientist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913