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Give over to another for care or safekeeping
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consign
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "to ratify by a sign or seal," from Middle French consigner (15c.), from Latin consignare "to seal, register," originally "to mark with a sign," from com- "together" (see com- ) + signare "to sign, mark," from signum "sign" (see sign (n.)). ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consign \Con*sign"\, v. i. To submit; to surrender or yield one's self. [Obs.] All lovers young, all lovers must Consign to thee, and come to dust. --Shak. To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce. [Obs.] Augment or alter . . . And we'll consign ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. commit forever; commit irrevocably give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage" [syn: charge ] send to an address
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive business English) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping. 2 (context transitive English) To entrust to the care of another. 3 (context transitive English) To send to a final destination.
Usage examples of consign.
I ascertained that such animals as did not succumb to the immediate effects of their mutilations were consigned to a cellar, to be kept, unattended and unfed, until wanted for the following lectures, which occurred on alternate days.
He remembered in a vague sort of way the stories which used to be told of the terrible Apulian spider, but he had consigned them to the limbo of medical fable where so many fictions have clothed themselves with a local habitation and a name.
Ky was far less interested in the details of biogeochemical processes than in the price of refreshment cultures for the environmental system and what she could hope to get for the cargo originally consigned to Leonora.
The secretary perfectly understood the trick, and, upon the receipt of five hundred cruzados, he accepted the deposition of Olivarez, sworn to by him, as sufficient evidence, and you were consigned to the mines upon this deposition by a warrant from the judge.
Hard to believe this beautiful child of nine was mentally retarded, like Doughboy, permanently consigned to four.
Impala, sealed together in copper cylinders, consigned to the great forgettery in Mount Holyoke Mausoleum.
Blow up the first icecraft, or ten, unmindful of the countless sleeping innocents you thus consign to die.
The remains of Rhys Apbac, Labaya, Callendar, Sharpedge, and Lowboy were consigned to the morgue for burial in space, following the usual ritual aboard naval vessels.
He is rubber-stamped on hands, forehead, and ass, deloused, poked, palpated, named, numbered, consigned, invoiced, misrouted, detained, ignored.
Tangle Box, the thing that had been locked within the fairy mists, dispatched into exile just as they had been, and consigned to oblivion except for a fate that had brought Horris and Biggar to its unwitting rescue.
Louis accompanied the cortege bearing away his daughter as far as the royal city of Mantes, where the six months old infant was consigned to the keeping of Robert of Newburgh, the dapifer and justice of Normandy, a man of unexceptionable rank and piety.
For all those old dreams of the advent of the Ten Lost Tribes, of Buddhist priests, of Welsh princes, or of Phenician merchants on American soil, and there exerting a permanent influence, have been consigned to the dustbin by every unbiased student, and when we see such men as Mr.
He consigned the doctor and all his works, severally and comprehensively described, to hell, and finished up his epic speech by a pungent and Rabelaisian criticism of the whole race of leeches.
She desired, that after her enemies should be satiated with her innocent blood, her body, which it was determined should never enjoy rest while her soul was united to it, might be consigned to her servants, and be conveyed by them into France, there to repose in a Catholic land, with the sacred relics of her mother.
The apprentice, Raheen, examined the dung intently before consigning it to a chamberpot, squeezed a measure of urine from the sodden smallclothes and studied this sample too.