ASSESSOR Copy link • ASSESSORone who sits by another, in court or council-room, to advise him: assessor: also synedrus (among the Greeks, of a member of a collegium, etc., Liv.). One who is next in dignity, qui assidet alicui (poetically after Hor.: assidet iusano): better, qui ad aliquem, or alicui prope, or proximus accedit: or by qui cum aliquo dignitate exaequatur (of actual equality): qui secundum locum dignitatis obtinet; qui alicui dignitate proximus est (of occupying the second place). The assessor of a throne, proximus or secundus a rege: secundum gradum imperii tenere. Assessor of taxes, qui tributa in singula capita dividit: censor [Vid: ASSESS]: aestimator: qui quantum a quoque viro ex censu conferendum sit, aestimat (?): exactor vectigalium (tax-gatherer).