Assideans
CHASIDEANS, or CHA- SIDIM, one of the two great sects into which, after the Babylonian captivity, the Jews were divided with regard to the observance of the law-the Chasidim accepting it in its later developments, the Zadikim professing adherence only to the law as given by Moses.
From the Chasidim sprang the Pharisees, Talmudists, Rabbinists, Cabbalists, etc. ASSIGNATS (as-e-nyä'), the name of the national paper currency in the time of the French Revolution.
Assignats to the value of 400,000,000 francs were first struck off by the Constituent Assembly, with the approbation of the King, April 19, 1790, to be redeemed with the proceeds of the sale of the confiscated goods of the Church. On Aug. 27, of the same year, Mirabeau urged the issuing of 2,000,000,000 francs of new assignats, which caused a dispute exertions in the Assembly. Mirabeau's exertions, however, were seconded by Péthion and 800,000,000 francs more were issued ASSIGNEE They were increased by degrees to 45,- 578,000,000, and their value rapidly declined. They were withdrawn by the Directory from the currency, and at length redeemed by mandate at one-thirtieth of their nominal value.