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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Assembly \As*sem"bly\, n.; pl {Assemblies}. [F. assembl['e]e, fr assembler. See {Assemble}.] 1. A company of persons collected together in one place and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment. 2. A collection of inanimate objects. [Obs.] --Howell. 3. (Mil.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General Assembly is the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, composed of ministers and ruling elders delegated from each presbytery; as the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, or of Scotland.
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