Assignation - What does it mean?
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An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
* Alexander Pope
The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
* Holland
A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
assignation
English
Noun
(en noun)- While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
- 1749' ''As soon as Mr. Barville saw me, he got up, with a visible air of pleasure and surprize, and saluting me, asked Mrs. Cole if it was possible that so fine and delicate a creature would voluntarily submit to such sufferings and rigours as were the subject of his '''assignation . — John Cleland, ''
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
- This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.