ppl. a. [f. ASSERT v. + -ED.] Claimed, maintained; positively stated.

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1685.  Dryden, Thren. August., xviii. Th’ asserted Ocean rears his reverend Head.

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1805.  Southey, Madoc in Azt., i. Wks. V. 206. Every beast of rapine had retired From man’s asserted empire.

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1875.  Whitney, Life Lang., ix. 170. To see … how close the asserted correspondences are.

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