assertory (asertori)

[ a everation hence, one who shares another's position, rank, or dignity; an a ociate in office. Don Quixote, or his a e ors, the curate and the barber. T. Warton, Hist. of Eng. Poetry, I. 336. 2. An inferior officer of justice, who sits to a ist a judge as a law authority; in Scotland, the legal adviser of a magistrate, with judicial powers. Minos the strict inquisitor appears, And lives and crimes with his a e ors hears. Dryden, Æneid, vi. 3. In England, a person chosen to a ist the mayor and aldermen of a borough in matters concerning elections.-4. In some universities, as the Scotch, the title of the elected members of the university court or supreme governing body of the university.-5. One appointed to make a e ments, especially for purposes of taxation. A e or of the vice-chancellor, in English universities, a deputy of the vice-chancellor appointed by him to hear causes and to be his vicegerent in a e orial (as-e-sō'ri-al), a. [ court.-Nautical a e ors. See nautical. se ors. + servile.] [I] am weary of a ervil ing myself to every man's charity. Bacon, v. 240 (Ord MS.).