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department of the Mayenne, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftrift of Evron, one league eaft of Evron. 
Asse le Boi'vre, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Sarte, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Frenay le Vifcomte, eight miles fouth-fouth-weft 
of Alenfon. 
ASSE'LO, a town of Perfia, in the province of Farfif- 
tan, on the north coaft of the Perfian gulf, forty-feven 
leagues fouth of Sclliras. 
AS'SELYN (John), a famous Dutch painter, was born 
it; Holland, and became the difciple of Vandevelde, the 
battle-painter. He diftinguiftied himfelf in hiftory-paint- 
ings, battles, lartdfcapes, animals, and particularly horfes. 
He travelled into France and Italy; and was fo pleafed 
with the manner of Bambochio, that he always followed 
it. Me painted many pictures at Lyons, where he married 
the daughter of a merchant at Antwerp, and returned 
with her to Holland. Here he firft difeovered to his coun¬ 
trymen a new manner of painting landfcapes like Claude 
Lorraine ; upon which all the painters imitated his ftyle, 
and reformed the dark brown they had hitherto followed. 
Affelyn’s pictures were fo much admired at Amfterdam, 
that they fold at a high price. He died in that city in 
1660. Twenty-four pieces of landfcapes and ruins, which 
he painted in Italy, have been engraved by Perelle. 
ASSEM'BLAGE, [ '\_aJfemblage,Yx.~\ A collection; a 
number of individuals brought together. It differs from 
ajfembly, by being applied only, or chiefly, t® things ; af- 
J'embly being ufed only, or generally, of perfons.—All that 
we amafs together in our thoughts is pofitive, and the af- 
Jimblagi of a great number of pofitive ideas of fpace or 
duration. Locke, —The hate of being affembled : 
O Hartford, fitted or to (hine in courts 
With unaffeCted grace, or walk the plains 
With innocence and meditation join’d 
In foft ajfemblage, liften to my fong ! Thomfon. 
To ASSEM'BLE, v.a. \_afembler, Fr.] To bring toge¬ 
ther into one place. It is ufed both of perfons and things. 
—And he fhall fet up an enfign for the nations, and fhall 
ejfemble the outcafts of Ifrael, and gather together the dif- 
perfed of Judah. Ifaia/i,\ i. 12. 
To Assemble, v. n. To meet together.—Thefe men af- 
fcmbled, and found Daniel praying. Daniel. 
ASSEM'BLY,/. [ ajfemblee. , Fr.] A company met to¬ 
gether; a dance ; a rout; a bail: 
They had heard, by fame, 
Of this fo noble and fo fair ajfembly, 
This night to meet here. Skakefpearc. 
Assembly, inlaw, is, when three perfons or more af- 
femble themfelves together, with intent mutually to afiift 
each other, again!! any who fhall oppofe them, in the exe¬ 
cution of fonte enterprife of a private nature, with force 
or violence, againft the peace, or to the terror of the peo¬ 
ple, whether the aft intended was of itfelf lawful or un¬ 
lawful. If, after their meeting, they fhall move forward 
towards the execution of any fitch aft, whether they put 
it in execution or not, it is then a rout ; and, if they exe¬ 
cute fuch a thing in deed, then it is avtoL 1 Hawk. 155. 
See Riot. 
Assembly, in the military art, the fecond beating of 
a drum before a march; at which the foldiers fir ike their 
tents, roll them up, and (land to their arms. 
ASSENE'DE, a town of Flanders, one mile fouth-weft 
of Sas de Ghent. 
AS'SENHEIM, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and county of Solms Rodelheim, at the 
conflux of the Wetter and the Nidda, eleven miles north- 
eaft of Frankfort on the Mayne, and twenty-eight eaft- 
north-eaft of Mentz. Lat.50.11-N. Ion. 26. 36. E. Ferro. 
AS'SENS, a fea-port town of Denmark, on the weft 
coaft of the ifland of lumen, with a good harbour in the 
Little Belt. Lat.55.20.N- Ion. 27.40. E. Ferro. 
ASSENT',/. Lajenfus, Lat.] The aft of agreeing to any 
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thing. —All the arguments on both ftdes mu ft be laid m 
balance, and, upon the whole, the underftanding deter¬ 
mine its£ ijfcnt-. Locke .—Confent; agreement.—To urge any 
thing upon the church requiring thereunto that religions 
ajfent of Chriftian belief, wherewith the words of the holy 
prophets are received, and not to fliew it in feripture ; this 
did the fathers evermore think unlawful, impious, and 
execrable. Hooker. » 
To A ssent, v. n. \_aJfentire,Y at.] To concede ; to yield 
to, or agree to.—And the Jews ailo ajfentcd, faying, tha£ 
thefe things were fo. Acls,xx iv. 9. 
ASSENTA'TION, J. \_aJJentatio , Lat.] Compliance 
with the opinion of another out of flattery or diffimulation. 
ASSENT'MENT, / Confent_Their arguments are 
but precarious, and fubfift upon the charity of our ajfent- 
?nents. Brown. 
AS'SER, (John), or Asse'rius Meneyen'sis, that is, 
“ After of St. David’s,” bifhop of Shirburn in the reign 
of Alfred the Great. He was born in Pembrokefhire, and 
educated in the monaftery of St. David’s by the archbifhop 
Aflerius, who, according to Leland; was his kinfman. In 
this monaftery he became a monk, and by his afliduous ap¬ 
plication foon acquired great learning and abilities. Al¬ 
fred, the munificent patron of genius, about the year 880, 
lent for him to court. The king was then at Dean in 
Wiltfhire. He was fo charmed with After, that he made 
him his preceptor and companion. As a reward for his 
fervices, lie appointed him abbot of different monafteries; 
and at laft promoted him to the epifcopal fee of Shirburn, 
where he died and was buried in the-year 910. He was, 
fays Pits, a man of genius, modefty, learning, and integrity 
of life. He is faid to have been principally inftrumental 
in perfuading the king to reftore the univerfity of Oxford 
to its priftine dignity and luftre. Fie wrote, De Vita et 
rebus Geftis Alfredi, &c. Lond. 1574, publifhed by arch- 
bifhop Parker, in the old Saxon character, at the end of 
WalfinghamiHift. Francf. 1602,fol. Oxf. 1722, 8vo. Ma¬ 
ny other works are afcribed to him, but all doubtful. 
ASSERA'DOES, a fmall ifland near the weft coaft of 
North America, at the mouth of the bay of Realejo, in 
the province cf Nicaragua. 
ASSE'RIA, a town of Liburnia. See Asisia. 
ASSERl'GO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Abruzzo Ultra, feven miles north- 
eaft of Aquila. 
To ASSERT', v.a. [ ajfero , Lat.] To maintain; to de¬ 
fend either by words or aftions.—Your forefathers have 
ajjerted the party which they chofe till death, and died for 
its defence. Dryden. —To affirm; to declare pofitively. 
To claim; to vindicate a title to : 
Nor can the groveling mind, 
In the dark dungeon of the limbs confin’d, 
AJJert the native fkies, or own its heav’nly kind. Dryden. 
ASSERTION,/. The aft of afferting. Pofition ad¬ 
vanced. 
ASSERT'IVE, adj. Pofitive ; dogmatical; perempto¬ 
ry.—He was not fo fond of the principles he undertook to 
illuftrate, as to boaft their certainty ; propofing them not 
in a confident and ajfertive form, but as probabilities and 
liypothefes. Glanville. 
ASSERT'OR,/ Maintainer; vindicator; fupporter; 
affirmer: 
Among th’ a/fertors of free reafon’s claim, 
Our nation’s not the leaft in worth or fame. Dryden. 
To ASSER'VE, v.a. \_aJfervio, Lat.] To ferve, help,or 
fecond. 
To ASSESS', v.a. [from ajfejlare , Ital. to make an equi¬ 
librium, or balance.] To charge with any certain luin.— 
Before the receipt of them in this office, they were ajjcj]'- 
ed by the affidavit from the time of the inquifition found. 
Bacon. 
ASSES'SION,/ [ ajfcjfio , Lat.] A fitting down by one, 
to give afliftance or advice. 
ASSESS'MENT, 
