Consign

//kənˈsaɪn// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping. transitive
  2. 2
    give over to another for care or safekeeping wordnet
  3. 3
    To entrust to the care of another. transitive

    "For virtue’s image yet poſſeſt her mind, / Taught by a maſter of the tuneful kind : / Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, / Conſign’d the youthful conſort to his care."

  4. 4
    commit forever; commit irrevocably wordnet
  5. 5
    To send to a final destination. transitive

    "to consign the body to the grave"

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  1. 6
    send to an address wordnet
  2. 7
    To assign; to devote; to set apart.

    "The French commander, charmed with the greatneſs of your ſoul, accordingly conſign’d it [a donation] to the uſe for which it was intended by the donor[…]"

  3. 8
    To stamp or impress; to affect.

    "Ennoble my ſoul with great degrees of love to thee, and conſign my ſpirit with great fear, religion and veneration of thy holy name and laws[…]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French consigner or directly from Latin cōnsignō (“furnish with a seal”), from con- + signō (“mark, sign”).

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