A person who officially sets or enforces standards for the size, weight, quality, or price of goods; a court official who conducts assizes.
From 'assize' plus the agentive suffix -er, meaning 'one who assizes.' Refers to medieval and early modern officials responsible for maintaining standards in markets.
Assizers were medieval quality inspectors with real power—they could destroy substandard bread or ale, making them some of history's first consumer protection advocates!
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