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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ASSERTORY

a.Affirming; maintaining.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ASSERTORY

As *sert "o *ry, a. Etym: [L. assertorius, fr. asserere.]

 

Defn: Affirming; maintaining. Arguments... assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.