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[ A ertion unsupported by fact is nugatory. Junius. 4. A positive declaration or averment; an unsupported statement or affirmation: as, his as sertion proved to be false. An a ertion is as distinct from a conclusion as a word of command is from a persuasion or recommendation. J. H. Newman, Gram. of A ent, p. 3. The capacity of jelly [protoplasm] to guide forces, which Profe or Huxley says is a fact of the profoundest significance to him, is not a fact at all, but merely an a ertion . Beale , Protoplasm, p. 85. =Syn. 2. Vindication, defense, maintenance.-3 and 4. Statement, a everation, protestation. a ertional (a-ser's hon-al), a. [ a ertive (a-sėr'tiv), a. [ Proposing them not in a confident and a ertive form, but as probabilities and hypotheses, Glanville. 346 a ertively (a-sertiv-li), adv. In an a ertive manner; affirmatively.