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all focage lands devifable, an afTife of mort d’anccftor could 
no longer be brought of lands held in focage, fee i Leon. 
267; and that now, fince the (fat. 12 Car. II. c. 24, (which 
converts all tenures, a few only excepted, into free and 
common focage,) no aflife of mort d’anceftor can be brought 
of any lands in the kingdom; but that, in cafe of abate¬ 
ments, recourfe mu ft be properly had to the writs of en¬ 
try. 3 Comm. 1S7. It is to be obferved, moreover, that 
thefe writs are now almoft obfolete, being in a great mea- 
fure ftiperfeded by the adtion of ejectment, which anfwers 
almoft all the purpofes of real aClions ; except in fome ve¬ 
ry peculiar cafes. 
Assise of the Forest, \_ajfta deforejta, Lat.] Is a fta- 
tute touching orders to be obferved in the king’s foreft. 
Manwood, 3 5. The ftatute of view of frank pledge, anno 
18 Edw. II. is alio called the aflife of the king; and the 
ftatute ot bread and ale, 51 Hen. III. is termed the aflife 
ot bread and ale. And thefe are fo called, becaufe they 
fet down and appoint a certain meafure, or order, in the 
things they contain. There is further an affile of nufance, 
ajjifa nocumenti, where a man maketh a nufance to the free¬ 
hold of another, to redrefs the fame. And befides Little- 
ton’s divificn of afiifes, there are others mentioned by other 
•writers, viz. aflife at large, brought by an infant to enquire 
of a diffeifin, and whether his anceltor were of full age, 
good memory, &c. when he made the deed pleaded, where¬ 
by he claims his right. 
ASSI'SER, f. [from ajjife.'] An officer who has the 
care and overlight of weights and meafures. 
ASSI'SI, a town of Italy, belonging to the States of 
the Church, in the duchy of Spoleto, the fee of a bilhop, 
fifteen miles weft of Nocera. 
To ASSIST', v. a. [ajffer, Fr. ajjijlo, I.at.] To help.— 
Receive her in the, Lord, as becometh faints, and aj]]t her 
in whatfoever bullnefs (he hath need. Rom. xx i.z.—Ac¬ 
quaintance with method will ajjijl one in ranging human 
affairs. Walts. 
ASSIST'ANCE,yi \_ajjijlavcc , Fr.] Help; furtherance. 
—You have abundance affiances for knowledge, in excel¬ 
lent books. Wake. 
Assistance has been defcribed by an elderly man 
clothed in white, with a mantle of purple, crowned with 
rays, a heart hanging at a chain of gold round his neck; 
his right hand llretchcd out, and open; on his left fide a 
vine fupported by a flake, and at his right a ftork. His 
age is an emblem of prudence, as his white raiment and 
purple mantle are of fincerity and power. His chaplet of 
olive Ihews his tendency to peace, the rays it is environed 
with, the afliftance of the fupreme Being, and the pofture 
of his arm and hand, his readinefs; the vine fupported by 
a (take is his antitype, and the ftork an emblem as well of 
paternal as filial duty and afieflion. 
ASSIST'ANT, f. A perfon engaged in an affair, not 
as principal, but as auxiliary or minifterial. Sometimes it 
is perhaps only a fofter word for an attendant: 
The pale affj'iants on each other flar’d, 
With gaping mouths for iffuing words prepar’d. Dryden. 
Assistant, adj. Helping; lendingaid.—For the per¬ 
formance of this work, a vita! or directive principle leem- 
eth to be off ant to the corporeal. Grew. 
ASSISTEN'TliS, f. [from ad and fijlo, Lat. to (land 
near.] A name of the proftate glands; fo called becaufe 
they are near the bladder. 
ASSI'SUS, adj. Rented or farmed out for fuch an af- 
fize, or certain aflefled rent in money or provifions. Terra 
ajjifa was commonly cppofed to terra dominica ; this laft 
being held in domain, and occupied by the lord, the other 
let out to inferior tenants. And hence comes the word to 
affefs or allot the proportion and rates in taxes and pay¬ 
ments by affeffors. 
ASSITH'MENT,^/". A wiregild or compenfation, by a 
pecuniary mul£t; front the prepofition ad, and the Saxon 
Tithe, vice ; quod vice fupplicii ad expiandum deliBumJ'olvitur. 
AS'SIUS, f. j ~xccri&- ) from Asv©-, a town of Troas, 
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where it is found.] A ftone whofe powder is ufed to con- 
fume fpongy fleft). 
AS'SO, or As'sos, a fea-port of Afiatic Turkey, in 
Natolia, in the gulf of the ASgean Sea, to which it gives 
name, eleven leagues weft of Adramiti. Lat. 39.38. N. 
Ion. 43.47.E. Ferro. 
ASSO'CIABLE, adj. [ ajfociabilis , Lat.] That which 
may be joined to another. 
lo ASSO'CIATE, v. a. [ajfocier, Fr. ajjocio, Lat.] To 
unite with another as a confederate. To adopt as a friend 
upon equal terms. To accompany ; to keep company with 
another.—Friends fhould ajjociate friends in grief and woe. 
Shahejpcare. —To unite ; to join. It has generally the par¬ 
ticle with-, as, He ajfociated with his mafter’s enemies. 
Jo Associate, v.n. To unite himfelf; to join himfelf. 
Associate, adj. Confederate; joined in intereft or 
purpofe. 
Associate, f. A perfon joined with another; a partner. 
A confederate, in a good or neutral fenfe ; an accomplice 
in ill. A companion ; implying- fome kind of equality : 
Sole Eve, ajjociate foie, to me, beyond 
Compare, above all living creatures dear. Milton. 
ASSOCIA'TION, f. [from ajfociatcf Union; con¬ 
junction; fociety.—The church, being a lociety, hath the 
felf-fame original grounds which other politic focieties 
have; the natural inclination which all men have unto fo- 
ciable life, and confent to fome certain bond of affociation ; 
which bond is the law that appointeth what kind of order 
they Ihould be ajfocialed in. Hooker. —Confederacy; union 
for particular purpofes, good or ill.—Partnerfhip.—Self-'' 
denial is a kind of holy affociation with God ; and, by ma¬ 
king you his partner, interefts you in all his happinefs. 
Boyle. —Connexion. Appofition ; union of matter.—The 
changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the 
various feparations, and new ajj'ociations and motions, of 
thefe permanent particles. Newton. 
Association of Ideas, is where two or more ideas 
confiantly and immediately follow or fucceed one another 
in the mind, fo that one (hall almoft infallibly produce the 
other, whether there beany natural relation between them, 
or not. See Metaphysics. Where there is a real affi¬ 
nity or connection in ideas, it is the excellency of the 
mind, to be able to collect, compare, and range them in. 
order, in its inquiries: but where there is none, nor any 
caufe to be afligned for their accompanying each other, 
but what is owing to mere accident or habit; this unna¬ 
tural affociation becomes a greater imperfection, and is, 
generally fpeaking, a main caufe of error, or wrong de¬ 
ductions in reafoning. Thus the ideas of goblins and 
fprights, it has been obferved, has really no more affinity 
with darknefs than with light ; and yet let thefe ideas be 
inculcated on the mind of a child, and raife them there 
together, it is poflible he fhould never be able to feparate 
them again fo long as he lives, but darknefs (hall ever 
bring with it thofe frightful imaginations. 
Such an erroneous combination of ideas, Mr. Locke 
fltews, is the great caufe of the irreconcileable oppofition 
between the different feCls of philofophy and religion ; for 
we cannot imagine, that all who hold tenets different from, 
and fometimes even contradictory to, one another, fhould 
wilfully and knowingly impofe upon themfelves, and re¬ 
fute truth offered by plain reafon : but fome loofe and in¬ 
dependent ideas are, by education, cuftom, and the con- 
ftant din of their party, fo coupled in their minds, that 
they always occur together : thefe they can no more fepa¬ 
rate in their thoughts, than if they were but one idea, and 
they operate as if they were fo.. This is the foundation of 
the greateft, and almoft of all the errors in the world. 
Affociation forms a principal part of Dr. Hartley’s me¬ 
chanical theory of the mind. He diftinguifhes it into fyn- 
chronous and fucceffive; and aferibesour Ample and com¬ 
plex ideas to the influence of this principle or habit. Par¬ 
ticular fenfations refult from previous vibrations conveyed 
through the nerves to the medullary fubftance of the 
brain; 
