Consign
verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping. transitive
- 2 give over to another for care or safekeeping wordnet
- 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 commit forever; commit irrevocably wordnet
- 5 To send to a final destination. transitive
"to consign the body to the grave"
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- 6 send to an address wordnet
- 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[…]"
- 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[…]"
Example
More examples""To thy guardian care / she doth her Gods and ministries consign. / Take them, thy future destinies to share, / and seek for them another home elsewhere, / that mighty city, which for thee and thine / o'er traversed ocean shall the Fates prepare.""
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French consigner or directly from Latin cōnsignō (“furnish with a seal”), from con- + signō (“mark, sign”).
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