Verb

(en verb)

(business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.

To entrust to the care of another.

* Alexander Pope

Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, / Consigned the youthful consort to his care.

To send to a final destination.

to consign the body to the grave

* Atterbury

At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state.

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To assign; to devote; to set apart.

* Dryden

The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor.

To stamp or impress; to affect.

* Jeremy Taylor

Consign my spirit with great fear.

Verb

(en verb)

To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug

To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.

* (rfdate), (John Evelyn)

They addict themselves to the civil law.

* (rfdate) (Francis Beaumont) &

He is addicted to his study.

* (rfdate) (Adventurer)

That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.

* (rfdate) (Thomas Fuller)

His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.

* (rfdate), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

A man gross ... and addicted to low company.

(obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

* (rfdate) (John Evelyn)

* The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth.