Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.

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(lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.

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(lb) To allot or give something as a task.

*(Robert Southey) (1774-1843)

*:The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .

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*:He assigned to his men their several posts.

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

(lb) To attribute or sort something into categories.

To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.

To give (a value) to a variable.

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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.