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consigned
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vb. (en-past of: consign )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consign \Con*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Consigned 3; p. pr. & vb. n. Consigning .] [F. consigner, L. consignare, -signatu,, to seal or sign; con- + signare, fr. signum mark. See Sign .] To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing ...
Usage examples of consigned.
When we were alone we addressed a solemn prayer to Selenis, and then to the great satisfaction of the marchioness the box was consigned to the address.
The magistrate consigned her to imprisonment in a convent, and she was there still when I left.
When my conductor had consigned me to the officer of the watch I was handed over to a corporal, who led me into a vast hall on the ground floor of the building.
Do you expect the damned to acknowledge the justice of the decree which has consigned them to eternal woe?
He brought in Linda Gable's friends, her former psychiatrist, the doctors at the institution where she had been consigned on more than one occasion for alcohol and Valium addiction.
It preached, rather, that there were fully one thousand hells and, further, it purported to describe ways in which one could invoke the devils, demons, and false bodhisattvas who were consigned there.
But how far that disdain removed Terry from the mainstream of life, consigned to observing it from afar, like a god on Olympus.
It felt like I had been constipated for four years, like I had been consigned to the inner ring of purgatory, which in 'Nam, I suppose I was.
He gave us a copy of a diary he had made-names, RDV locations, materiel consigned and redirected.
They took very little time in devouring themselves, and when it was over, the victors were so weak that I had no difficulty in dispatching them into the same graves into which they had consigned their most recent adversaries.
I said, "the false Bellino would have been found out, and Therese would have been consigned to a miserable convent for which she was never made.
At last I asked them to leave me, and I remained all night by Charlotte's bed, resolved not to leave it till her body had been consigned to the grave.
She ached for the crystal she had consigned forever to an airless moon.
With a dismissive flick of fingers sticky with gorupear juice in the general direction of the city she had escaped from, he consigned the local Catteni to an inferior status.
The boy sighed deeply, and, bestowing an ardent gaze upon its plumpness, unwillingly consigned it to his master.