assessor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: as=ses=sor

CIDE DICTIONARY

assessor, n. [L., one who sits beside, the assistant of a judge, fr. assidre. See Assession. LL., one who arranges of determines the taxes, fr. assidre. See Assess, v., and cf. Cessor.].

•  One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.  Mozley & W.  [1913 Webster]
•  One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.  [1913 Webster]

  "Whence to his Son,
  The assessor of his throne, he thus began."  [1913 Webster]

  "With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment."  [1913 Webster]
•  One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.  Bouvier.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

assessor, n.
1 a person who assesses taxes or estimates the value of property for taxation or insurance purposes.
2 a person called upon to advise a judge, committee of inquiry, etc., on technical questions.

Derivative

assessorial adj.

Etymology

ME f. OF assessour f. L assessor -oris assistant-judge (as ASSESS, -OR(1)): sense 1 f. med.L

THESAURUS

assessor

Internal Revenue Service, JA, amicus curiae, appraiser, assayer, barmaster, cartographer, chancellor, chorographer, circuit judge, customhouse, customs, estimator, evaluator, exciseman, farmer, gauger, geodesist, judge advocate, judge ordinary, jurat, justice in eyre, justice of assize, land surveyor, lay judge, legal assessor, master, measurer, meter, military judge, oceanographer, ombudsman, ordinary, police judge, presiding judge, probate judge, publican, puisne judge, recorder, revenuer, surveyor, tax assessor, tax collector, tax farmer, taxer, taxman, topographer, valuator, valuer, vice-chancellor

ROGET THESAURUS

assessor

Judge

N judge, justice, justiciar, justiciary, chancellor, justice of assize, judge of assize, recorder, common sergeant, puisne judge, assistant judge, county court judge, conservator of the peace, justice of the peace, J, P, court, magistrate, police magistrate, beak, his worship, his honor, his lordship, jury, twelve men in a box, Lord Chancellor, Lord Justice, Master of the Rolls, Vice Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice, Chief Baron, Mr, Justice, Associate Justice, Chief Justice, Baron, Baron of the Exchequer, jurat, assessor, arbiter, arbitrator, umpire, referee, referendary, revising barrister, domesman, censor, barmaster, ephor, grand juror, grand juryman, juryman, talesman, archon, tribune, praetor, syndic, podesta, mollah, ulema, mufti, cadi, kadi, Rhadamanthus, litigant, judicial, a Daniel come to judgment.