As-sĕm’bly, n.

n. [Fr. assemblée, Pr. assemblada, from Fr. assembler, Pr. assemblar; It. assemblea, Sp. asamblea, from the Fr. assemblée. See ASSEMBLE.]

1. A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose; as, religious, political, and social assemblies.
2. An assemblage. [Obs.] Howell.
3. (Mil.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Scott.

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. — Primary assembly, a meeting of the people or legal voters in a town, city, or other district, who appear and act on public business in person, and a majority of whose votes originate the supreme power in a state.