assientist

English

Alternative forms

• Assientist

Etymology

Compare French assientiste, Spanish asentista.

Noun

assientist (plural assientists)

1. (historical) A shareholder of the Assiento company involved in the slave trade.
2. (historical) One of the parties to the Assiento contract.
   • 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:

     as England gained the assiento , it was agreed that the agents of the assientists might enter all the ports of Spanish America

References

• “assientist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.