affeer (third-person singular simple present affeers, present participle affeering, simple past and past participle affeered)
(transitive, obsolete, legal) To assess or reduce an arbitrary penalty or amercement to a precise sum; to fix the market value of.
(transitive, obsolete) To confirm; to assure.
Source: Wiktionary
Af*feer", v. t. Etym: [OF. aforer, afeurer, to tax, appraise, assess, fr. L. ad + forum market, court of justice, in LL. also meaning pri.]
1. To confirm; to assure. [Obs.] "The title is affeered." Shak.
2. (Old Law)
Definition: To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum. Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
