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Webster 1913 Edition
Assessor
As-sess′or
,Noun.
1.
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.
2.
One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.
Whence to his Son,
The
The
assessor
of his throne, he thus began. Milton.
With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his
assessors
in judgment. I. Taylor.
3.
One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.
Bouvier.
Webster 1828 Edition
Assessor
ASSESS'OR
,Noun.
1.
One appointed to assess the person or property.2.
An inferior officer of justice, who sits to assist the judge.3.
One who sits by another, as next in dignity.