Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AS'SI-DENT
AS-SID-E'ANS, or CHAS-I-DE'ANSAS-SID'U-ATE
AS'SI-DENT, a. [L. assideo, assidens, of ad and sedeo, to sit.]
Assident signs, in medicine, are such as usually attend a disease, but not always; distinguished from pathognomic signs, which are inseparable from it. – Encyc.
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