Consign
[kən'saɪn]
Definition
(verb.) give over to another for care or safekeeping; 'consign your baggage'.
(verb.) commit forever; commit irrevocably.
(verb.) send to an address.
Checker: Merle--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave.
(v. t.) To give in charge; to commit; to intrust.
(v. t.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods.
(v. t.) To assign; to devote; to set apart.
(v. t.) To stamp or impress; to affect.
(v. i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.
(v. i.) To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Transfer, alienate, abalienate, demise, devolve, convey, deliver over, make over, hand over.[2]. Intrust, commit, give in trust.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ASSIGN]
Checker: Willa
Definition
v.t. to give to another: to sign or seal: to transfer: to entrust: to commit: to transmit for sale or custody.—adj. Consign′able.—ns. Consignā′tion; Consig′natory one who signs a document jointly.—adj. Consigned′ given in trust.—ns. Consig′nature complete signature: joint signing; Consignee′ one to whom anything is consigned or entrusted; Consign′er Consign′or; Consign′ment the act of consigning: the thing consigned: the writing by which anything is made over: in Mercantile Law goods placed in the hands of an agent or factor for sale or for some other specified purpose.
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Examples
- Child-torturers, slave masters and drivers, I consign to the hands of jailers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We consign the whole thing to oblivion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Never fear, good people of an anxious turn of mind, that Art will consign Nature to oblivion. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He must now consign the patient to her care; and he proceeded to repeat to her Lydgate's directions as to the quantity of each dose. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The boy sighed deeply, and, bestowing an ardent gaze upon its plumpness, unwillingly consigned it to his master. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr. Hall she left to Caroline--or rather, it was to Caroline's care Mr. Hall consigned himself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He went and put her shawl--it was a white cashmere, consigned to her by the Major himself from India--over her shoulders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The dead were wrapped in tarpaulins and lashed on deck to be identified by their comrades before being consigned to the deep. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The manner in which you were consigned to me last night made me doubt. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is to sell, upon their master's account, the European goods consigned to them, and to buy, in return, Indian goods for the European market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was consigned to Mr. Abe Slaney, Elriges Farm, East Ruston, Norfolk. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But it is full of indignation to-night after undergoing the ordeal of consigning to the tomb the remains of a faithful, a zealous, a devoted adherent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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