Great Assize

English

Proper noun

the Great Assize

1. (archaic, Christianity) the Last Judgment
   • 1890, Francis Edward Smiley, The Evangelization of a Great City: or, The Churches’ Answer to the Bitter Cry of Outcast, page 63:

     The complete report cannot be rendered until the books are opened at the Great Assize. Then many shall rise up and call its members blessed […]

   • 1896, Hugh Reginald Haweis, The Dead Pulpit, page 258:

     But none of these authorities seem to establish the Great Assize and the Coming of the Lord in the Clouds as a future, far-off event to be literally expected.

   • 1949, Austin Farrer, A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St. John’s Apocalypse, page 302:

     The gehenna of corpses after the destruction of Gog’s army may naturally be identified with the gehenna of the Great Assize, which had become an accepted article of belief since Ezekiel’s day.