Crossword clues for assignation
assignation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assignation \As`sig*na"tion\, n. [L. assignatio, fr. assignare: cf. F. assignation.]
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The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.
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An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
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A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "appointment by authority," from Old French assignacion (14c., Modern French assignation), from Latin assignationem (nominative assignatio) "an assigning, allotment," noun of action from past participle stem of assignare (see assign). Meaning "action of legally transfering" (a right or property) is from 1570s; that of "a meeting by arrangement, tryst" is from 1650s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature. 2 The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. 3 A make over by transfer of title; assignment.
WordNet
n. a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) [syn: tryst]
the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state" [syn: allotment, apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "assignation".
Honour as if he had expected she would bring him a letter with an assignation in it from Sophia, and bore the disappointment as ill.
I busted DDs and thwarted assignations by flashing my cherry lights, wrote traffic tickets by the shitload and generally prowled for anything out of the ordinary.
Bill Whitten found the idea of an in-office assignation so disturbing.
Her bruised body, even the child growing in her belly, could easily have been the result of any other assignation with the types of brutes who usually consorted with tavern floozies.
Pug was sure the other slaves in the household knew of their nighttime assignations, but the proximity of people in Tsurani life had bred a certain blindness to the personal habits of others, and no one cared a great deal about the comings and goings of two slaves.
At night the rooms there served for assignations with courtesans from the House of the Trout next door.
CHAPTER XVII Continuation of the Last Chapter--My First Assignation With M.
You have amongst the papers taken from me a letter making this assignation, Monsieur le Capitaine, and I should be indeed grateful if you would determine that we shall break our fast there, so that I may have an opportunity of seeing him.
We have thrown open the coffers of Fhirze for this assignation, but I would not slight the traditions of Naamah.
Being dormed at Trainee Quarters, Amr had no room of his own for such an assignation and Damia had dodged the possibility of using her house by saying that her parents were always around and that would inhibit her.
The night, Carelin knew, was the time for clandestine assignations, suborning of apparatchiki, bribe-taking.
It is the only time, in a hundred assignations, I ever gave the signale, the code word of surrender that requires a patron to cease.
I had become quite the fashion by this time, and I accepted assignations as readily as my swift-healing flesh allowed, choosing sometimes at whim and sometimes out of covert interest, so that no pattern might be discerned in my choices.
She had accompanied the President on many of these assignations, but rather than growing used to them, they disgusted her more each time.
Russell knew about Walter Sullivan's odd viewing habits from the mirror and chair, but then again, for the assignations he didn't know about, didn't get to watch, who knew what his reaction would've been?