Obs. [OF. ‘Asseour, en parlant du service de la table, qui fait asseoir,’ Godefroy: f. asseoir to seat, set.] An officer who superintended the laying of the king’s table for dinner. Cf. ASSAYER 3 and ASSEWER.
[c. 1315. Househ. Ord. Ed. II., transl. 1601 (1876), §§ 49–51. The asseour of the kinges table.]
1448. in Hearne, R. Glouc., 462. Sir William Martelle, the kynge’s asseore, take eke was ther.
